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You might be right that it's best for that, but CoreData pre-dates table views by many years and has always been sold by Apple as a general store for object gra

by gress 12y ago

You might be right that it's best for that, but CoreData pre-dates table views by many years and has always been sold by Apple as a general store for object graphs.

mikeash 12y ago
Pre-dates table views? NSTableView dates to the 1990s. Core Data was introduced in 2005.
- dozenal 12y ago
  Core Data was based on the Enterprise Object Framework from NeXT.
  - mikeash 12y ago
    Only loosely. And I don't believe EOF predates table views either.
    - dozenal 12y ago
      Okay, but I"m still not buying that Core Data had no design goals beyond backing store for table views.
      - mikeash 12y ago
        Oh yes, I certainly wouldn't try to argue with that. In classic Apple fashion, they seem to try to sell it as the solution for all things data storage.