On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:00 AM Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 02:49:48PM -0800, chad wrote:
> > (the toolkit code used by the ns port is potentially at/beyond its
> > theoretical end of support)
>
> I think you've got this a little backwards.
>
> The Mac port used to use Carbon, which is beyond it's end-of-life, or
> is at least not seeing new feature development. The Mac port also uses
> a lot of "NEXTstep" (Cocoa) code, which is still the current toolkit
> for macOS and iOS, although it has another name on iOS and I can't
> remember what it is.
>
> The NS port is almost entirely "NEXTstep" (GNUstep and Cocoa,
> specifically).
>

Apologies for misleading with my bad and/or out of date memory; Alan is
certainly better informed than I am here.

Since it had been a while, I dug in a bit and found this relevant
information in the mac port:
https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/src/master/README-mac
This might be useful to anyone looking at the alternatives.

Thanks,
~Chad