Re: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[John Stiles]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Philip Mötteli wrote:
> > Few Mac developers are going to be interested in working on a 
> > crappier version of something we already have.
>
> Apart from AppKit: Please give me some examples! Or are you just 
> talking out of the blue?

I think this is where the Cocoa fans are diverging from the GNUstep 
fans.

For me, AppKit is what makes Cocoa magic. I could care less about the 
Cocoa containers--I am comfortable with STL and don't really get a kick 
out of the cool features of, say, NSArray. For me, Cocoa without AppKit 
is entirely uninteresting. I like Interface Builder, and "springy" 
views, and dialog controls that "just work" like you expect, and 
control-dragging around to make my own actions and outlets. AFAICS 
GNUstep is not going to give me a comparable "ease-of-development" as 
Cocoa/AppKit, or even half as easy.

If you are a developer who really wants a cool set of containers and 
stuff like that, then by all means investigate GNUstep. But frankly I 
think STL will work just as well, and look better on your resume ;) You 
are welcome to disagree here and I'm sure there are legitimate reasons 
to prefer either one, but things like containers just aren't cool 
enough to make me want to use GNUstep.

PS I could care less how CoreFoundation works under the covers. The 
fact that GNUstep is in Objective-C from top to bottom is not a selling 
point for me. If anything, it makes me think that Apple's 
implementation will probably be a lot faster :) Objective-C is meant to 
be easy to write, but I don't care how the guts of Cocoa are written; I 
just want them to be fast and stable!