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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by dpark on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:26PM (#49895985)
That’s kind of a weird take. It’s perfectly reasonable that Apple has not attempted to yank all the “NS” references out, but they are absolutely a holdover from NeXTSTEP. That NeXTSTEP no longer exists does not change that.
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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by kergonath on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:49PM (#49896314)
The convention is a holdover. It does not mean that the code is the same. There’s plenty of NS classes that did not exist before OS X.
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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by dpark on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:44PM (#49898378)
I didn’t say the code is the same. I said it’s incorrect to say that “ns” has nothing to do with NeXTSTEP.
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Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess by the_lucifer on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:44PM (#49899265)
Even funnier, there's new ones added for Liquid Glass that still reference NS: NSGlassEffectView
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