Re: Thunderbolt port audio programmability

2020-03-13 Thread Gerald Henriksen via Cocoa-dev
On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:27:25 -0700, you wrote: >I'm looking at creating an iPhone/iPad app that acts as a dual-channel >waveform generator. > >I see two options for the output signal medium: > (a) using the audio jack (on suitable devices), or > (b) using the Thunderbolt port As already

Re: Future of Cocoa

2019-11-19 Thread Gerald Henriksen via Cocoa-dev
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:51:14 -0700, you wrote: >When committing to 64 bit Apple said NO to Carbon but YES to Cocoa and YES to >Core Foundation and YES to a lot of other stuff. The OS still has the XNU >(Mach) Kernel and FreeBSD (written in C & C++), the Cocoa frameworks (base >layer written in

Re: Thoughts on Objective-C++

2019-11-11 Thread Gerald Henriksen via Cocoa-dev
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:28:57 -0600, you wrote: >> That’s more open than Obj-C, because Apple never open-sourced Foundation. > >AFAIK no Apple frameworks for Swift have been (or will be) open sourced >either. > >> MSVC and .NET are both fully closed, as far as I’m aware. > >.NET Core is fully open

Re: Thoughts on Cocoa

2019-10-02 Thread Gerald Henriksen via Cocoa-dev
On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:19:43 -0400, you wrote: >Don’t worry, ObjC UI is not being deprecated. There are new APIs in >Catalina that are Swift-only, but that does not and will not prevent you >from continuing to write ObjC applications that simply don’t use those >APIs. Apple may not (yet) be