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A fun bit of #macOS development history I stumbled upon today, Apple Tech Note 2034.

Essentially it included a bunch of guidelines and tips on macOS development but contained such inflammatory assertions that Apple straight up *pulled* it down (2033/5 are still there)!
Among some of the the things that didn't sit very well with devs in the note:

- Positing Objective-C as being a more portable cross-platform language than C++
- Promoting hard-coded pathname APIs for accessing files over traditional Mac APIs
Reading over it, quite a bit of the punch is lost on me since I started in this industry in a professional sense in 2012. But the same conversations happen today - Objective-C vs Swift being a similar parallel in that it garners hot opinions, fast.
It's super interesting & I love learning about this kinda stuff/history in my own profession. Imagine if Twitter was around then 🙈! Avie Tevanian would've got @'d a few times!

Though, a similar effect still occurred as message boards from 01' are still up discussing the topic!
If you want to read up more, here are some links:

@gruber still has an informative post on it: daringfireball.net/2003/07/the_go…
@mjtsai breaks it down: mjtsai.com/blog/2014/10/0…

And finally the note itself: drissman.com/avi/misc/tn203…
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