A while back I offered to port a PowerPlant Carbon app to Cocoa for
sometime who posted it on one of the contract programming sites -
ucode or some such.
We agreed on his total price but he absolutely _refused_ to agree on
pre-agreed milestones. I always put such milestones in the contract,
as we
It might be the new Carbon once:
- there is ABI stability in Swift. This could be not before late 2019.
- the new APIs are only available in Swift. Is Swift NIO a hint this
is coming sooner than expected? I don't know. I don't use networking
frameworks.
Regarding the complexity of porting from
"older OS versions", porting to 10.6 or later vs. 10.10 or later:
I at first intended all the drivers I write for my clients to work on
Snow Leopard 10.6, but after actually attempting to do so I settled
upon supporting El Capitan 10.11, sometimes just Sierra 12.6.
There are some occasional but q
