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Aaron Hillegass
Aaron Hillegass (born 1969) Is the founder and former CEO of Big Nerd Ranch.
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
API
An is a way for two or more computer programs or components to communicate with each other.
AppKit
AppKit (formally Application Kit) is a graphical user interface toolkit. Cocoa (API) and AppKit are apple Inc. developed frameworks.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
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Apple TV
Apple TV is a digital media player and microconsole developed and marketed by Apple.
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is a brand of smartwatch products produced by Apple.
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AppleScript
AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. that facilitates automated control over scriptable Mac applications.
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Application framework
In computer programming, an application framework consists of a software framework used by software developers to implement the standard structure of application software.
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Application software
An application program (software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, typically to be used by end-users.
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Aqua (user interface)
Aqua is the graphical user interface, design language and visual theme of Apple's macOS and iOS operating systems.
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Automatic Reference Counting
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a memory management feature of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and Swift programming languages.
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Berkeley sockets
Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC).
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Bundle (macOS)
In NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and their lineal descendants macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS, and in GNUstep, a bundle is a file directory with a defined structure and file extension, allowing related files to be grouped together as a conceptually single item.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C Sharp (programming language)
C# is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms.
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C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
CamelBones
CamelBones is a programming framework that allows one to use Mac OS X's Cocoa API from the Perl programming language.
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Carbon (API)
Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system. Cocoa (API) and Carbon (API) are apple Inc. developed frameworks and macOS APIs.
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Chain-of-responsibility pattern
In object-oriented design, the chain-of-responsibility pattern is a behavioral design pattern consisting of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.
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Clang
Clang is a compiler front end for the C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++ programming languages, as well as the OpenMP, OpenCL, RenderScript, CUDA, SYCL, and HIP frameworks.
Classic Mac OS
Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.
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Clozure CL
Clozure CL (CCL) is a Common Lisp implementation.
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Cocoa text system
The Cocoa text system (formerly known simply by the primary class name NSText) is the linked network of classes, protocols, interfaces and objects that provide typography and text field editing capabilities and to Cocoa applications on Apple's macOS, where it is the primary text-handling system. Cocoa (API) and Cocoa text system are macOS APIs.
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Cocoa Touch
Cocoa Touch is the application development environment for building software programs to run on iOS for the iPhone and iPod Touch, iPadOS for the iPad, watchOS for the Apple Watch, and tvOS for the Apple TV, from Apple Inc. Cocoa Touch provides an abstraction layer of iOS, the operating system for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.
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Constant (computer programming)
In computer programming, a constant is a value that is not altered by the program during normal execution.
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Container (abstract data type)
In computer science, a container is a class or a data structure whose instances are collections of other objects.
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Core Data
Core Data is an object graph and persistence framework provided by Apple in the macOS and iOS operating systems. Cocoa (API) and Core Data are macOS APIs.
Core Foundation
Core Foundation (also called CF) is a C application programming interface (API) written by Apple Inc. for its operating systems, and is a mix of low-level routines and wrapper functions. Cocoa (API) and Core Foundation are macOS APIs.
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Cross-platform software
In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms.
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D (programming language)
D, also known as dlang, is a multi-paradigm system programming language created by Walter Bright at Digital Mars and released in 2001.
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Desktop computer
A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a stationary location on or near a desk (as opposed to a portable computer) due to its size and power requirements.
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Display PostScript
Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language (originally developed for computer printing) to generate on-screen graphics.
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Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems, defined as computer systems whose inter-communicating components are located on different networked computers.
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End user
In product development, an end user (sometimes end-user) is a person who ultimately uses or is intended to ultimately use a product.
Event loop
In computer science, the event loop (also known as message dispatcher, message loop, message pump, or run loop) is a programming construct or design pattern that waits for and dispatches events or messages in a program.
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Foundation Kit
The Foundation Kit, or just Foundation for short, is an Objective-C framework in the OpenStep specification described by NeXT Computer, Inc.. Cocoa (API) and Foundation Kit are macOS APIs.
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Free Pascal
Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) is a compiler for the closely related programming-language dialects Pascal and Object Pascal.
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Gesture recognition
Gesture recognition is an area of research and development in computer science and language technology concerned with the recognition and interpretation of human gestures.
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Glyph
A glyph is any kind of purposeful mark.
GNU Compiler Collection
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures and operating systems.
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GNUstep
GNUstep is a free software implementation of the Cocoa (formerly OpenStep) Objective-C frameworks, widget toolkit, and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows.
Graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation.
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Graphical widget
A graphical widget (also graphical control element or control) in a graphical user interface is an element of interaction, such as a button or a scroll bar.
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HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser.
Human interface guidelines
Human interface guidelines (HIG) are software development documents which offer application developers a set of recommendations.
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Interface Builder
Interface Builder is a software development application for Apple's macOS operating system.
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IOS
iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system developed by Apple exclusively for its smartphones.
IOS SDK
The iOS SDK (iOS Software Development Kit), formerly the iPhone SDK, is a software development kit (SDK) developed by Apple Inc. The kit allows for the development of mobile apps on Apple's iOS and iPadOS operating systems.
IPad
The iPad is a brand of iOS- and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple, first introduced on January 27, 2010.
IPadOS
iPadOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for its iPad line of tablet computers.
IPhone
The iPhone is a smartphone produced by Apple that uses Apple's own iOS mobile operating system.
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and formerly marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface.
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Iteration
Iteration is the repetition of a process in order to generate a (possibly unbounded) sequence of outcomes.
James Duncan Davidson
James Duncan Davidson is an American software developer and photographer.
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Kerning
In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.
Language binding
In programming and software design, binding is an application programming interface (API) that provides glue code specifically made to allow a programming language to use a foreign library or operating system service (one that is not native to that language).
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Lazarus (software)
Lazarus is a cross-platform, integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development (RAD) using the Free Pascal compiler.
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Library (computing)
In computer science, a library is a collection of read-only resources that is leveraged during software development to implement a computer program.
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Ligature (writing)
In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph.
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Linux
Linux is both an open-source Unix-like kernel and a generic name for a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds.
Lisp (programming language)
Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
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LispWorks
LispWorks is computer software, a proprietary implementation and integrated development environment (IDE) for the programming language Common Lisp.
LLVM
LLVM is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies that can be used to develop a frontend for any programming language and a backend for any instruction set architecture.
MacOS
macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.
MacRuby
MacRuby is a discontinued implementation of the Ruby language that ran on the Objective-C runtime and CoreFoundation framework under development by Apple Inc. which "was supposed to replace RubyCocoa".
MacTech
MacTech is a monthly magazine for consultants, IT Pros, system administrators, software developers, and other technical users of the Apple Macintosh line of computers.
Make (software)
In software development, Make is a command-line interface (CLI) software tool that performs actions ordered by configured dependencies as defined in a configuration file called a makefile.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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Model–view–controller
Model–view–controller (MVC) is a software design pattern commonly used for developing user interfaces that divides the related program logic into three interconnected elements.
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Mono (software)
Mono is a free and open-source.NET Framework-compatible software framework.
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NeXT
NeXT, Inc. (later NeXT Computer, Inc. and NeXT Software, Inc.) was an American technology company headquartered in Redwood City, California that specialized in computer workstations for higher education and business markets, and later developed web software.
NeXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP is a discontinued object-oriented, multitasking operating system based on the Mach kernel and the UNIX-derived BSD.
NObjective
NObjective is a Mono to Cocoa bridge.
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NOP (code)
In computer science, a NOP, no-op, or NOOP (pronounced "no op"; short for no operation) is a machine language instruction and its assembly language mnemonic, programming language statement, or computer protocol command that does nothing.
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Nu (programming language)
Nu is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, with a Lisp-like syntax, created by Tim Burks as an alternative scripting language to program OS X through its Cocoa application programming interface (API).
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O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American learning company established by Tim O'Reilly provides technical and professional skills development courses via an online learning platform.
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Object Pascal
Object Pascal is an extension to the programming language Pascal that provides object-oriented programming (OOP) features such as classes and methods.
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Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects, which can contain data and code: data in the form of fields (often known as attributes or properties), and code in the form of procedures (often known as methods).
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Objective-C
Objective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.
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OpenStep
OpenStep is an object-oriented application programming interface (API) specification developed by NeXT. Cocoa (API) and OpenStep are macOS APIs.
Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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PARC (company)
SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California.
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Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
PostScript
PostScript (often abbreviated as PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language.
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Programming language
A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.
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Project Builder
Project Builder was an integrated development environment (IDE) originally developed by NeXT for version 3 of the NeXTSTEP operating system by separating out the code editing parts of Interface Builder into its own application.
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.
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PyObjC
PyObjC is a bidirectional bridge between the Python and Objective-C programming languages, allowing programmers to use and extend existing Objective-C libraries, such as Apple's Cocoa framework, using Python.
Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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Quartz (graphics layer)
In Apple's macOS operating system, Quartz is the Quartz 2D and Quartz Compositor part of the Core Graphics framework.
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QuickDraw
QuickDraw was the 2D graphics library and associated application programming interface (API) which is a core part of classic Mac OS.
Reference counting
In computer science, reference counting is a programming technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource, such as an object, a block of memory, disk space, and others.
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Rhapsody (operating system)
Rhapsody is an operating system that was developed by Apple Computer after its purchase of NeXT in the late 1990s.
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Rosetta (software)
Rosetta is a dynamic binary translator developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, an application compatibility layer between different instruction set architectures.
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Rotation
Rotation or rotational motion is the circular movement of an object around a central line, known as axis of rotation.
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.
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RubyCocoa
RubyCocoa is a macOS framework that provides a bridge between the Ruby and the Objective-C programming languages, allowing the user to manipulate Objective-C objects from Ruby, and vice versa.
Ruler
A ruler, sometimes called a rule, scale or a line gauge, is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a user estimates a length by reading from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device.
Secret Lab
Secret Lab is an independent computer game developer based in Hobart, Australia.
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Shape
A shape is a graphical representation of an object's form or its external boundary, outline, or external surface.
SIMBL
SIMBL (short for SIMple Bundle Loader, formerly Smart InputManager Bundle Loader, and pronounced like symbol or cymbal), is a discontinued application enhancement (InputManager bundle) loader for Mac OS X developed by Mike Solomon.
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is a purely object oriented programming language (OOP) that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business.
Software framework
In computer programming, a software framework is an abstraction in which software, providing generic functionality, can be selectively changed by additional user-written code, thus providing application-specific software.
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Spatial anti-aliasing
In digital signal processing, spatial anti-aliasing is a technique for minimizing the distortion artifacts (aliasing) when representing a high-resolution image at a lower resolution.
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.
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String (computer science)
In computer programming, a string is traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable.
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Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC microprocessors.
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Swift (programming language)
Swift is a high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community.
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Text editor
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.
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TvOS
tvOS (formerly Apple TV Software) is an operating system developed by Apple Inc. for the Apple TV, a digital media player.
Typography
Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed.
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Undo
Undo is an interaction technique which is implemented in many computer programs.
Unicode
Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized.
User interface
In the industrial design field of human–computer interaction, a user interface (UI) is the space where interactions between humans and machines occur.
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WatchOS
watchOS is the operating system of the Apple Watch, developed by Apple Inc. It is based on iOS, the operating system used by the iPhone, and has many similar features.
WebKit
WebKit is a browser engine primarily used in Apple's Safari web browser, as well as all web browsers on iOS and iPadOS. Cocoa (API) and WebKit are apple Inc. developed frameworks.
Worldwide Developers Conference
The Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is an information technology conference held annually by Apple Inc. The conference is usually held at Apple Park in California.
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X Window System
The X Window System (X11, or simply X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays, common on Unix-like operating systems.
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Xcode
Xcode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for macOS, used to develop software for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS.
XNU
XNU ("X is Not Unix") is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which, in addition to being the basis for macOS, is also the basis for Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.
See also
Apple Inc. developed frameworks
- ARKit
- AppKit
- Carbon (API)
- CloudKit
- Cocoa (API)
- HomeKit
- Metal (API)
- WebKit
MacOS APIs
- AVFoundation
- Allegro (software library)
- Apple Advanced Typography
- Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging
- Audio Units
- Carbon (API)
- ClanLib
- Cocoa (API)
- Cocoa text system
- ColorSync
- Core Animation
- Core Audio
- Core Data
- Core Foundation
- Core Image
- Core Storage
- Core Text
- Core Video
- Foundation Kit
- GLFW
- OpenPlay
- OpenStep
- Portable Distributed Objects
- Pygame
- Quartz 2D
- QuickTime
- Raylib
- Real-Time AudioSuite
- Simple DirectMedia Layer
- Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
References
Also known as Cocoa (computing), Cocoa (software), Cocoa API, Cocoa programming, Java bridge, Mac OS X/Cocoa, OS X Cocoa, Phil Class, YellowBox.