On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Chunk 1978 wrote: > i've been reading about how apple dropped their plans for Carbon 64 a > while back,
We just had a thread about this, but basically, Carbon is not dead; only parts of it were taken out of the 64-bit frameworks. > so if carbon is C++ then i'm surprised that apple is still > supporting it at all? First, Carbon might be internally implemented as C++, I don't know, but all of its exterior interfaces are in procedural C. Second, C++ is a fine language, and is not going to be deprecated any time soon, since a lot of stuff in the OS is written in C++ or ObjC++, such as the Security and WebKit frameworks. The only problem with C++ is the ABI keeps getting broken between compilers, so you might not be able to target really old versions of the OS with newer compilers. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
