On 11/20/14, 4:04 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
Apple is a moving target, they pulled the rug from under Tk's feet twice over the past 10 years. Nobody knows if Tk will continue to exist on the mac if Cocoa is withdrawn some day and replaced by a new and completely different windowing framework.
There is indeed a lack of manpower and expertise for Tk/Mac: I'm pretty much it, except when someone submits a patch to scratch a specific itch.
Apple has introduced Swift as a new systems language, but (as I understand it) the intent is to supersede Objective-C as a language, not the Cocoa frameworks per se. So I think the risk of a brand-new windowing system replacing Cocoa (and thus requiring yet another new implementation of Tk) is pretty small. There may be a larger risk with newer API's being expressed mainly in Swift, which would require conversion to Objective-C for legacy codebases, but that is a smaller hurdle to clear.
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