Summary
Cocoa is an advanced, mature, flexible, and extensible software development technology that uses frameworks of objects and related resources. Cocoa has a legacy of cross-platform support. Cocoa applications have access to all features of Mac OS X. Cocoa provides large programmer productivity advantages compared to other technologies available for software development on Mac OS X, but Cocoa applications only run on Mac OS X. Carbon and 100% Pure Java are alternative technologies that support multiple platforms.
The rest of this book explores Cocoa software development in detail. You’ll start with Chapter 2, “Cocoa Language Options,” which covers the range of languages used to develop Cocoa applications.
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