Apple: Snow Leopard - speed and stability...
I just read an article on Ars Technica making the case that the next MacOSX version will be called Snow Leopard and I didn´t need to read any further to see what it is about (i did read it in the end of course). Apperantly (and no I am not in the know as of yet) OSX gets a much much much needed codecleaning. I can not say how happy I would be if thats indeed the case. No more featuritis just a clean lean fast stable system. And while I think there is going to be an outcry of die hard old time Mac users for the dropping PPC support I think its a good move to consolidate the code base (less code to watch over mean less bugs creeping in). And what I would cheer as loud as I could is the dropping of Carbon - about fucking time. And to you three carbon developers - get a grip - you earn money with programming you can surely learn something new and make your codebase meaner, leaner, cleaner, faster in the end and everyone will be happy (yes that means work - no free money is there?).
I really pray to the finder gods (who are utilizing ridiculous 40% of the processor pretty constantly at the moment) to make this rumor true and bring us a true new finder (not just a new interface), a quicktime that doesn´t suck, graphic card drivers that actually use the graphic cards fully, stopping ram leaks, stopping hanging system calls etc etc etc.. If thats true its one heck of a smart move on apples part - but then again I believe it when I see it - we were promised a new finder since 10.0 (that was 8 years ago)…