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Hasn't everyone tried the Snow Leopard beta? I've tried it and am very happy with it. But even if you haven't, many people are still excited about it. A cocoa
by mikeyur 17y ago
Hasn't everyone tried the Snow Leopard beta?
I've tried it and am very happy with it. But even if you haven't, many people are still excited about it. A cocoa rewrite means much better performance and extensibility.
Now they just need to re-write iTunes in Cocoa (hopefully something they'll do for iTunes 9)
- sneakums 17y ago"A cocoa rewrite means much better performance and extensibility." Only if they bother to make it fast and extensible.
- mikeyur 17y agoWhich they explained were 2 main focuses in the keynote. A Cocoa rewrite will make it faster out of the box.
- jomohke 17y agoI think his point is that it isn't Cocoa itself which makes the new version faster and more extensible: It's the rewriting process. The new codebase has presumably been better structured to be faster and more extensible. As John Gruber has said "Cocoa is just an API. It is not some sort of magic technology where you just sprinkle a ton of square brackets in your source code and you instantly get a better UI." (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/30/cocoa-finder http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/10/30/cocoa-finder)
- mikeyur 17y agoI agree 100%, but a well written cocoa app is much easier to achieve than a carbon app (one reason why the Finder has been screwed up all these years). But I agree, a rewrite with performance and accessibility in mind is what makes it faster, not cocoa itself (should've reworded that).
- tptacek 17y agoIf you have, you're breaking an NDA by talking about it.
- mikeyur 17y agoI never signed an NDA, I guess I agreed to one when installing the software? I'm not a developer, the WWDC release is all over BitTorrent.
- jrockway 17y agoYeah, Apple is going to cut off his access to BitTorrent now...
- Zev 17y agoI guess its incorrect to assume someone might have something legitimately nowadays? :\