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The development of Mac OS X APIs reflect that of the underlying operating system. Mac OS X is written mostly in C and Objective-C. In particular, Objective-C is ubiquitous in the human interface systems. With Mac OS X v10.5, after a transition where new elements of the Carbon interface specifically referred to the underlying Cocoa system, Apple identified Objective-C and Cocoa as the preferred interface to human interface services. Carbon access to various human interface services in the 64-bit operating environment is not available, and significant new features will not be added to the 32-bit Carbon interface. Most other parts of the system, which have less emphasis on Objective-C, are not so affected.
Finally, Apple has declared the Carbon APIs deprecated in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, which was released to the public on 24th July 2012.
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