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Which software was ahead of its time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

that’s why all sorts of system calls start with NS

What do you mean with this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Programmers that make MacOS apps see a lot of things with "NS" in the name. For example, if you want to play sound in your code, you can use something called NSSound. If you want to interact with the clipboard (or "pasteboard" as MacOS calls it), you use something called NSPasteboard

"NS" is short for "NeXTStep". Apple kept the old prefix even though it's called MacOS now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the explanation!