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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pjmlp on Saturday September 04, 2021 @03:56AM (#28413067)
macOS now has 4 toolkits to choose from.
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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pseudalopex on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:17AM (#28415854)
Not really.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415638

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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pjmlp on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:38PM (#28419511)
Yes really, nothing forbids random developer Joe not to follow your point of view.
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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pseudalopex on Saturday September 04, 2021 @07:06PM (#28420192)
Carbon was 32 bit only. macOS is 64 bit only now. It isn't a point of view.
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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pjmlp on Sunday September 05, 2021 @04:14AM (#28422445)
Not everyone is running on the latest macOS version, and even so we are still down to 3 frameworks, yes it is a point of view.
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Re:Windows 11: a survey of text boxes by pseudalopex on Sunday September 05, 2021 @07:09PM (#28428632)
Apple removed Carbon and made Catalyst generally available in the same version. So they weren't ever viable at the same time. And can you point to even 1 developer considering a brand new app that doesn't support the last 2 OS versions?

Why stop at Carbon if you count removed frameworks? They had Classic and X11 too! And HyperCard!

Catalyst is expressly for porting iPad apps. So it's just SwiftUI and Cocoa if you compare macOS to Windows.

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