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Subject: Ada development resources for Mac OSX Cocoa applications
From: Matt Borchers <mattborchers@gmail.com>
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Doing a search here for "mac osx cocoa" returns one hit from 1999.  Needles=
s to say, any "help" in that thread would be woefully out-dated.

I am new to a team that needs to port a 32-bit Carbon graphical desktop app=
lication written in Ada to its 64-bit Cocoa equivalent.  Searching the web =
for any kind of Cocoa function library (in the same spirit as .NET) is lead=
ing me to very little of use aside from what I find at developer.apple.com.=
  Apple developers seem to care mostly about iOS/phone development than des=
ktop apps.  Can anybody direct me to a good set of reference guides, on-lin=
e or off-line, that would be helpful to a programmer writing a graphical Ma=
c application using non-native (ie. non-Apple) tools.  Being old-school, I =
would even appreciate the name of a good book.

I know that 20 years ago interfacing Ada to Objective-C was a very difficul=
t task.  I am hopeful that the past 20 years have brought technologies that=
 have made this easier or even simple.  Has anybody written an Ada binding =
to AppKit or Foundation with good documentation?

Thanks,
Matt