Editing MacApp (section)

===Lingering death===
The core developers of MacApp continued to work on the system at a low activity level throughout the 1990s. When all of Apple's "official" cross-platform projects collapsed, in late 1996 the team announced that they would be providing a cross-platform version of MacApp.

Soon after, Apple purchased [[NeXT]] and announced that [[OpenStep]] would be Apple's primary development platform moving forward, under the name [[Cocoa (software)|Cocoa]]. Cocoa was already cross-platform, at that time having already been ported to about six platforms, and was far more advanced than MacApp. This led to strong protests from existing Mac programmers protested that their programs were being sent to the "[[Classic Environment|penalty box]]", effectively being abandoned.

At WWDC'98, [[Steve Jobs]] announced that the negative feedback about the move to Cocoa was being addressed through the introduction of the [[Carbon (API)|Carbon]] system. Carbon would allow existing Mac programs to run natively under the new operating system, after some conversion. Metrowerks announced they would be porting their PowerPlant framework to Carbon, but no similar announcement was made by Apple regarding MacApp.

Through this period there remained a core of loyal MacApp users who grew increasingly frustrated at Apple's behaviour. By the late 1990s, during the introduction of Cocoa, this had grown to outright dismissal of the product. Things were so bad that a group of MacApp users went so far as to organize their own meeting at WWDC '98 under an assumed name, in order to avoid having Apple staffers refuse them a room to meet in.

This ongoing support was noticed within Apple, and in late 1999 a "new" MacApp team, consisting of members who had worked on it all along, was tasked with releasing out a new version. Included was the new Apple Class Suites (ACS), a thinner layer of C++ wrappers for many of the new Mac OS features being introduced from OpenStep, and support for building in Project Builder. MacApp 3.0 Release XV was released<ref name=mt2001_02>{{cite magazine
| magazine = [[MacTech]]
| title    = New Mac OS X Related Releases
| first    = 
| last     = 
| date     = February 2001
| url      = https://archive.org/details/eu_MacTech-2001-02_OCR/page/n28/mode/1up
| pages    = 24
| volume   = 17
| issue    = 2
}} Mentions MacApp 15d3 with some of the features.</ref> on 28 August 2001 to the delight of many. However, in October the product was killed once again, this time forever, and support for existing versions of MacApp officially ended.

The Carbon-compliant PowerPlant X did not ship until 2004, and today Cocoa is almost universal for both MacOS and iOS programming.