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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by cnasc on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:44AM (#18838831)
I believe at this point no incremental upgrade is possible, because Carbon is entirely deprecated and will not run on current Macs.
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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by 1over137 on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:01PM (#18839576)
Carbon apps do run on current Macs, and on the current macOS (10.14). But that's the end of the line. Carbon is 32 bit only, and Apple has announced they are dropping 32 bit soon.
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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by honeywhite on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:10PM (#18871205)
It's not actually. Only the UI parts of Carbon are deprecated:

"We are still planning to support the Carbon Event Manager and Text Input Sources, to name two mostly non-UI APIs. You might wonder, what about the Memory Manager, or the Alias Manager, or the Process Manager, or other lower-level managers? At this time, it looks like most, if not all, of the APIs provided by the ApplicationServices and CoreServices umbrella frameworks will still be available in 64-bit." - Eric Schlegel (apple developer)

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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by ksherlock on Sunday January 06, 2019 @11:51AM (#18839166)
You could reimplement Carbon in Cocoa.
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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by lostgame on Sunday January 06, 2019 @10:16PM (#18842492)
You’re so right, I’ll go grab the source code for both and work on that right away.

It’s so obvious - why has nobody done it before?

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