{"id":10494,"date":"2015-01-14T13:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T18:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10494"},"modified":"2015-01-17T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:40:49","slug":"swiftifying-apples-framework-apis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/swiftifying-apples-framework-apis\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiftifying Apple&rsquo;s Framework APIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nshipster.com\/the-death-of-cocoa\/\">Mattt Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/nshipster.com\/the-death-of-cocoa\/\"><p>And yet, after just a few months of working with Swift, Cocoa has begun to lose its luster. We all saw Swift as the beginning of the end for Objective-C, but Cocoa? (It wouldn&rsquo;t be the first time an Apple standard library would be made obsolete. Remember Carbon?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.objc.io\/issue-20\/andy-matuschak.html\">Andy Matuschak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.objc.io\/issue-20\/andy-matuschak.html\">\n<p>I don&rsquo;t actually have insider knowledge here, so this is just speculation, but I think it will be a long process. At least when I was there, the teams spent the majority of their time not maintaining and improving frameworks, but really supporting market features like new screen sizes or support for new hardware. That&rsquo;s what takes most of the time. So it will take a conscious decision to do anything non-trivial, and I don&rsquo;t see that forthcoming.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattt Thompson: And yet, after just a few months of working with Swift, Cocoa has begun to lose its luster. We all saw Swift as the beginning of the end for Objective-C, but Cocoa? (It wouldn&rsquo;t be the first time an Apple standard library would be made obsolete. Remember Carbon?) Andy Matuschak: I don&rsquo;t actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,69,286,31,30,54,71,901],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-cocoa","tag-interview","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-objective-c","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10495,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions\/10495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}