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Carbon is one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) that were developed by Apple for the Mac OS X operating system. Carbon provided a good degree of backward compatibility for programs that ran on Mac OS 8 and 9. Developers could use the Carbon APIs to port (“carbonize”) their “classic” Mac applications and software to the Mac OS X platform with little effort, compared to porting the app to the entirely different Cocoa system, which originated in OPENSTEP. With the release of the Macintosh's 10.15 (Catalina) update, the Carbon API was officially discontinued and removed, leaving Cocoa as the sole primary API for developing modern Mac applications.
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