Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 21st Apr 2008 19:00 UTC, submitted by Adam S
Ars' Peter Bright wrote an article today entitled "From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user's conversion to Mac OS X", in which he explains why he believes "Windows is dying, Windows applications suck, and Microsoft is too blinkered to fix any of it". These are rather harsh words, but there is a definitive element of truth in it. The article is part one in a three-part series.
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I would understand keeping up with OSX development if that is what you have been doing or keeping up with Windows if that is what you know.
What I don't understand is why anybody would want to learn Cocoa from scratch. If you're going to learn a whole new set of API's, why not learn one that is cross platform like QT. Look at all the trouble Adobe got themselves into by using Carbon.
Now, if you need to tightly integrate with the OS you might wanna learn Cocoa. Much like just knowing QT isn't enough to write an app that tightly integrates with KDE or knowing Java isn't enough to integrate with Windows.
But that is a whole other issue in itself...I'm against apps that integrate that much into the environment.