Bernie wrote:

FBtoC development was already underway before the impending demise of 
Carbon was announced but I wonder if this project is really doing the 
FB community any favours? Aren't we delaying the inevitable and 
wouldn't the time adapting our code to run via FBtoC be better spent 
learning Cocoa?
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Bernie,

we had this discussion already a while back.

Fact is that when I reported about "Universal Binaries" in 2006 after 
having attended a "Universal Application Workshops" for members of 
the "Apple Developer Connection", it was absolutely clear for me that 
there is no future for non-OO languages on the Mac, at least if 
GUI-programming is essential.

Already in 2005 I started with Java and at the mentioned Apple 
workshop I got the confirmation that Apple will support Java and its 
bridge to Cocoa. It was even pointed out that--at that time--Eclipse 
was the better Java-IDE compared to XCode, but this might have 
changed.
(I also suggested to use Eclipse as a IDE-fundament for FB, but this 
was never deeply discussed and today it isn't worth while to think 
about it.)

I didn't do much coding since but I followed Apple's developments and 
I still should prefer Java over C. Java is a rather easy to learn 
OO-language and much more modern than C and even as C++. Furthermore, 
Apple provides a bridge to Cocoa. BTW, speed is definitely no longer 
a problem with Java!

Although there is no reason to not try ObjC, I should like to suggest 
having a look at Java. There are a lot of good and free books and 
tutorials dealing with Java.

Best
-- 

                   Herbie

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