Hi everybody,
around this time of the year Apple uses to hold its „World Wide Developer Conference“ or short WWDC to reveal what new features of their OSes they have developed over the last year. Since GNUstep is a free (as in speech) and open implementation of Cocoa, I thought it might be of interest for us of „What's new in Foundation“ / „What's new in AppKit“ this year. Because of COVID WWDC21 is a virtual online conference this year (like the year ago) and everything is available as free (as in beer) online videos which can be watched without registration on every modern web browser (I tried current versions of Safari, Firefox and Chrome and experienced no problems). All the videos are available here: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/sessions/ <https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/sessions/> Of most interest for GNUstep should be those two sessions: What's new in Foundation — https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10109/ <https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10109/> — 37:30 min and What's new in AppKit — https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10054/ <https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10054/> — 21:30 min While all of the code examples shown in those videos are in Swift (which is the case since Apple went „full in“ on Swift some years ago) the basic changes seem to be made to the ObjC layer at least where it made sense. There are some short mentions of this matter of fact made by the hosts of both sessions — it’s just not presented on the silver plate for us, we might have to dig their documentation for the details. Nevertheless I think both videos are a good overview and entry point for finding out what has changed, therefore I posted those links here. Enjoy! Kind regards, Lars
