Editing Foundation Kit (section)

{{Short description|Fundamental Objective-C framework within OpenStep specification}}
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The '''Foundation Kit''', or just '''Foundation''' for short, is an [[Objective-C]] [[Software framework|framework]] in the [[OpenStep]] specification described by [[NeXT Computer, Inc.]].  It provides basic classes such as wrapper classes and data structure classes.  This framework uses the prefix NS (for [[NeXTSTEP]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bumgarner |first1=Bill |title=The NS prefix predated Sun signing on to implement the OpenStep spec by quite a bit. |url=https://twitter.com/bbum/status/1260304075305791488}}</ref>).  It is also part of [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]] and of the [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]] standard library.