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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by chrisseaton on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:03PM (#18839243)
> At this point a Carbon codebase like that needs to be rewritten from scratch.

Hopefully you can just swap out a UI layer. You shouldn't need to rewrite any business logic.

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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by 1over137 on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:03PM (#18839586)
Carbon isn't just a UI toolbox, it also has API for file IO, memory management, etc, etc. The business logic could be using it too.
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Re:C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of E... by zozbot123 on Sunday January 06, 2019 @01:44PM (#18839802)
These are easy to replace, though.
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