The year of Cocoa

Kjell writes that “this year is the year of Cocoa” and that things from Apple start to come with Objective-C API’s now. That’s exactly what I want to hear! The Objective-C libraries (and later, frameworks) back in the NeXT days were so good, and for the first time in my life I didn’t feel that I wanted to write my own libraries.

I was thrilled when Apple bought NeXT and there was talk about a new operating system based on NeXTstep, but then you started to get the feeling that Objective-C was endangered (hence the [objC retain]; T-shirts). First WebObjects turned Pure Java and EOF in Objective-C disappeared.

Although Apple kept saying that Objective-C was the primary language for Cocoa development, and that Cocoa was the primary platform for new development on Mac OS X – I couldn’t shake off the feeling that someday, they might ditch it in favor for Java or something else.

I’m full of hope, now!