Re: When does Carbon completely?

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Eric Gorr <[email protected]> wrote:

> This discussion will ultimately be purely speculative since Apple isn't
> going to tell us, but I am still interested to learn what calculations
> others are making.
>
> We already know that Carbon is a deprecated technology. What I am now
> wondering is when does it go the way of "Classic" and become completely
> unsupported and non-functional?
>
> My current thinking is that OS 11 will be the line in the sand (both for
> 32-bit apps and Carbon). You will need to be Cocoa/Core Foundation & 64-Bit
> and anything else will just cease to function.
>
> So, when will that come?


What do you mean by "Carbon"? Folks use that word to mean various scopes of
system APIs....

-Shawn