GUI toolkit(s) status

[Kevin Walzer]

On 11/20/14, 4:04 AM, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Apple is a
> moving target, they pulled the rug from under Tk's feet twice over the
> past 10 years. Nobody knows if Tk will continue to exist on the mac if
> Cocoa is withdrawn some day and replaced by a new and completely
> different windowing framework.

There is indeed a lack of manpower and expertise for Tk/Mac:  I'm pretty 
much it, except when someone submits a patch to scratch a specific itch.

Apple has introduced Swift as a new systems language, but (as I 
understand it) the intent is to supersede Objective-C as a language, not 
the Cocoa frameworks per se. So I think the risk of a brand-new 
windowing system replacing Cocoa (and thus requiring yet another new 
implementation of Tk) is pretty small. There may be a larger risk with 
newer API's being expressed mainly in Swift, which would require 
conversion to Objective-C for legacy codebases, but that is a smaller 
hurdle to clear.

--Kevin
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