Forum: Vue


Subject: When will we lose support?

andrewe_665 opened this issue on Aug 05, 2009 · 101 posts


chippwalters posted Sun, 09 August 2009 at 1:48 AM

 Hi Jeff,

Yes, of course you are correct regarding the fact Apple has been telling developers for quite some time now to use Objective C. That said, most folks, like Adobe and e-on, have thousands of hours of code already optimized for cross-platform development.

Also, rather unique in 3D programming, is many companies prefer having the same exact interface on both platforms-- rather than going with Apple's HIG, they use their own. Some, IMO, are better (Modo) others may be worse (e-on?). 

For e-on and the rest to continue to compete with folks like Maxon on the Mac, they will have to provide 64-bit support. But, that will take some time. To rewrite huge chunks of code in Obj-C is a large task.

I am sure you are right regarding the Boot Camp vs multiple drives as well. I've got a very lonely Mac iBook sitting in the corner which I use to compile and test my apps on. Even then, I typically use a Remote Desktop Connection to keep from having to switch machines ;-).