Linked by David Adams on Mon 25th May 2009 21:22 UTC
Over the years, we've occasionally run an "Ask OSNews" feature, wherein a reader asks us a question and we answer it publicly. Lately I've really been enjoying Slate's Dear Prudence advice column and the ever-interesting Straight Dope, and I thought we should see if we can get more OSNews readers to submit questions, and turn Ask OSNews into a more-regular thing. If your question falls outside of our domain expertise, we'll try to track down an expert to help out. And of course, our responses will always be supplemented by further advice from OSNews readers in the comments. Questions are welcome on any topic ranging from OSes and computing to science and geek culture. Contact us with your questions. (Please include "Ask OSNews" in the subject). Today's question is from a young student in Hungary who's seduced by the faraway siren song of Apple's marketing and wonders, "should I switch?"
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RE[4]: OS X "deficiencies"
by kaiwai on Tue 26th May 2009 13:37
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AFAIK, at the API level Cocoa is a pretty complete rendition of OPENSTEP. Same classes, runtime and development tools, most notably XCode/Project Builder and Interface Builder.
Certainly, the user experience is very different, and that does turn off the old NeXT afficionados. Also, purists may not like that the old NeXT Display PostScript engine has been replaced by the PDF-based Quartz.
I'd be curious to learn what experienced developers on both platforms have to say on this topic; if you have a link to such a discussion that would be appreciated.
Certainly, the user experience is very different, and that does turn off the old NeXT afficionados. Also, purists may not like that the old NeXT Display PostScript engine has been replaced by the PDF-based Quartz.
I'd be curious to learn what experienced developers on both platforms have to say on this topic; if you have a link to such a discussion that would be appreciated.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=98168
I do seem to recall I was very vocal about how Cocoa Services, system-wide will bring back much of what made Openstep a dream desktop environment; and a big aide for third party devs to cooperate with one another and not reinvent the wheel over and over, thus bringing leaner, more focused applications that gives back as well as gets back functionality across the OS.
This is the first version I'm truly excited to be using and developing on.
This is the first version I'm truly excited to be using and developing on.
So it appears that some of the wings had been clipped when moving to Mac OS X. I also have a feeling that some of the ideas that NeXT were working on (before the buy out but never made it into the final product) were waiting for the right moment to appear.
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AFAIK, at the API level Cocoa is a pretty complete rendition of OPENSTEP. Same classes, runtime and development tools, most notably XCode/Project Builder and Interface Builder.
Certainly, the user experience is very different, and that does turn off the old NeXT afficionados. Also, purists may not like that the old NeXT Display PostScript engine has been replaced by the PDF-based Quartz.
I'd be curious to learn what experienced developers on both platforms have to say on this topic; if you have a link to such a discussion that would be appreciated.