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		galad87 on Oct 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on Cocoa You could have done the same with Carbon to Cocoa: transition a window/view at a time. You can use Cocoa windows and views in Carbon. Plus you can keep using your C++ core even if the UI is Cocoa. The same applies to Swift, you can write or rewrite parts of the app in Swift and keep part of it in C++/Rust/Objective-C or your preferred language. The same happens in SwiftUI, you can mix it with NSView and UIViews.

blub on Oct 5, 2019 [–]

AFAIK Carbon was a C++ API and Cocoa is Objective C(++). In which case the UI is a rewrite , not a transition.

lonelappde on Oct 5, 2019 | | [–]

You rewrite one screen at a time.

griffordson on Oct 5, 2019 | | | [–]

It's almost like the people complaining the loudest don't have a profitable software product that justifies regular ongoing maintenance or something.

saagarjha on Oct 5, 2019 | | [–]

Carbon is a C API.

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