[Cocoa-sharp] cocoa-sharp-dev Google Group has been shutdown

[Andreas Färber]

Am 23.01.2008 um 02:06 schrieb Andrew Brehm:

> It is probably easier to convince Mac users/developers to use .NET and
> CocoaSharp than it is to convince .NET (or Windows) developers to use
> CocoaSharp and port to a platform they probably think should be
> covered by Winforms.
>
> Does that make sense?
>
> Mono and CocoaSharp should be seen as one from Windows and as two  
> from Mac OS.

You will have a hard time trying to convince Mac developers to use a  
memory-hogging wrapper around the Objective-C API they'd normally use,  
especially since they now have GC support themselves.

If that's what you'd like to do, then you need a brilliant idea how to  
both avoid managed wrappers pointing to dealloc'ed/GC'ed ObjC  
instances and to avoid our (reference-incremented?) objects to be kept  
from releasing by our own GC due to mapping of pointers and objects.

Unless such a solution is found, Cocoa# will rather be a technology  
for those familiar with .NET/Mono and interested in a native GUI on  
the Mac without having to learn Objective-C.
(the problem being that while Cocoa# is incomplete, some Objective-C  
knowledge is required to fill in the missing parts)

Andreas