Re: Thoughts on Cocoa

2019-10-02 Thread Sam Ryan via Cocoa-dev
It is good to know there is still solid support for Objective-C UI, thank you for the information John. It has felt like the support is not there the last few years, with much of the documentation "archived" and the new documentation focused on Swift. Presently, it is hard to justify native

Re: Thoughts on ARC

2019-10-01 Thread Sam Ryan via Cocoa-dev
That was a good read, thank you for passing that on. It highlights a good point, that Apple is itself releasing applications with non-Mac UI (News, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos are mentioned in that article). In fact those applications are forced upon the user in a way that I've never seen before, as

Re: Thoughts on ARC

2019-09-30 Thread Sam Ryan via Cocoa-dev
No apology necessary, I'm pained by the same problems as you mentioned! On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 14:00, Jens Alfke wrote: > > > On Sep 30, 2019, at 4:57 PM, Sam Ryan wrote: > > I tried a completely new approach - Electron. I have found Electron to be > surprisingly quick to prototype, easy to

Re: Thoughts on ARC

2019-09-30 Thread Sam Ryan via Cocoa-dev
I have recently looked at utilising Swift to update an old Carbon based application. I stopped pursuing this path Swiftly, in part because of lack of good support for sockets and generally problematic use of CG* code. I tried a completely new approach - Electron. I have found Electron to be