Basically it was Smalltalk bolted onto C and with the elegant and robust NeXT frameworks meant that much of an application's functionality was provided by the underlying system which was revolutionary at the time.
From a different discussion:
>A quick overview of Interface Builder is Steve Job's demo for NeXT --- perhaps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0CbKYUFTY
>
>where they discuss how dragging/drawing allows one to make 80% of the app, and the balance of 20% is one's own code.
https://goodreads.com/book/show/1945013.Object_Oriented_Prog...
and also see the magazine articles:
- “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering.”. Fredrick P. Brooks, Jr.
and the rebuttal:
- "There IS a Silver Bullet" by Brad Cox from Byte magazine – the October 1990 issue: https://theopensourcery.com/there-is-a-silver-bullet/
Basically it was Smalltalk bolted onto C and with the elegant and robust NeXT frameworks meant that much of an application's functionality was provided by the underlying system which was revolutionary at the time.
From a different discussion:
>A quick overview of Interface Builder is Steve Job's demo for NeXT --- perhaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0CbKYUFTY > >where they discuss how dragging/drawing allows one to make 80% of the app, and the balance of 20% is one's own code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966774