I always thought that Cocoa is an Objective-C API, which is a more convenient counterpart to the more verbose or more cumbersome C API of Carbon, which often gives more detailed control though.

E.g. NSString has stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error:, but Carbon has a Text Encoding Conversion Manager (ADC Home > Reference Library > Reference > Carbon > Text & Fonts > Text Encoding Conversion Manager Reference) with dozens of functions.


But then there is something like a "Carbon application" which seems to be different from "application which uses (mostly?, exclusively?) the Carbon C API". For example, there is NSApplicationLoad, which is the "Startup function to call when running Cocoa code from a Carbon application."

So: what is the real difference between a "Carbon application" and a Cocoa one? Why would one create a Carbon application?

Kind regards,

Gerriet.


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