What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?

Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by sudhirj on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:52AM (#17591180)

Arguably, NeXT was the mother of today’s Apple. The old Apple bought NeXT along with Jobs, and the new products were basically NeXT technology with an Apple logo.

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by sudhirj on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:56AM (#17591198)

This is why everything in the Mac and iOS SDK is prefixed with NS - think it stands for NeXT Step?

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by Cthulhu_ on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:36AM (#17591368)

Yes, that's exactly what it stands for - see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/473758/what-does-the-ns-....

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by saagarjha on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:32AM (#17591353)

Could also be NeXT/SUN–but there's clearly a NeXT in there either way.

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by mmjaa on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:51AM (#17591420)

You are correct - the NS* stands for "Next/Sun" ...

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by Bahamut on Monday July 23, 2018 @07:10AM (#17591879)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by saagarjha on Monday July 23, 2018 @05:48AM (#17591620)

Does anyone have a counterpoint to this? I've heard both, so I'm curious if any one is "more correct".

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by mmjaa on Monday July 23, 2018 @06:21AM (#17591729)

I've heard both too, but I've seen docs that refer to the "NextSTEP/Sun" namespace .. somewhere buried deep in the Apple docs .. but I can't find it now. Either way, both "NextSTEP" and "NextSTEP/SUN" have been used to answer this question in the past, so I'd say both are correct .. especially since Sun left the project early.

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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT? by pking on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @01:22AM (#17598310)

NeXT is definitely the mother of today's Apple. OSX is the NeXT operating system and application stack repackaged with the Mac look-and-feel. More importantly, Steve put the entire NeXT management team in all the VP roles at Apple, where they were in charge of reworking the entire Apple software stack. iOS is a stripped-down version of OSX.

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