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Cocoa (OS X)

The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X
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What is Cocoa (OS X)?

Much of Cocoa is implemented in Objective-C, an object-oriented language that is compiled to run at incredible speed, yet employs a truly dynamic runtime making it uniquely flexible. Because Objective-C is a superset of C, it is easy to mix C and even C++ into your Cocoa applications.
Cocoa (OS X) is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.

Who uses Cocoa (OS X)?

Companies
10 companies reportedly use Cocoa (OS X) in their tech stacks, including Apple, Telegram Messenger, and tech-stack.

Developers
27 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Cocoa (OS X).

Cocoa (OS X) Integrations

Pros of Cocoa (OS X)
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Great community
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IOS
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Backed by apple

Cocoa (OS X) Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Cocoa (OS X)?
JavaScript
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Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
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