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		sgjohnson on Nov 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple acquires Pixelmator > Code bases in Cocoa were too heavy to switch to Swift C#, not Cocoa. Cocoa is an API. You can write a Cocoa application in Swift, if you really want to (but you should really use SwiftUI for anything new)

bangaroo on Nov 1, 2024 [–]

not to well actually you, but i assume you meant objective c? c# is a microsoft thing.

sgjohnson on Nov 3, 2024 | [–]

Oh yes

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