Re: Thoughts on Cocoa

2019-10-02 Thread Jeff Evans via Cocoa-dev
Well, hey, we here use Cocoa and are prepared for 64-bit as of the next couple of weeks. But that’s about basic changes in chip architecture and is understandable. I was more worried about any hints of leaving Obj-C behind, and I’m glad to hear that the Obj-C interface will continue to be

Re: Thoughts on Cocoa

2019-10-02 Thread Jeff Evans via Cocoa-dev
Here’s another small developer’s perspective: Practica Musica has been around since 1987 in one form or another (originally in 68000 assembler!). We’ve sold a lot of Macs for Apple. The upcoming version 7 is still C++ with Objective-C where necessary for the UI. We refuse to use Swift,

Re: Recommendations for cross platform library/framework

2019-08-27 Thread Jeff Evans via Cocoa-dev
If it’s any help: Microsoft Visual Studio now offers C++/winrt, a pure C++ environment that works great. Doesn’t seem to be well-known yet but it’s efficient for Windows Store apps. So all our C++ code goes straight into the Win version. No need for C# or C++/CX, etc. On the Mac I use C++ too