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That’s kind of a weird take. It’s perfectly reasonable that Apple has not attempted to yank all the “NS” references out, but they are absolutely a holdover from NeXTSTEP. That NeXTSTEP no longer exists does not change that.

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The convention is a holdover. It does not mean that the code is the same. There’s plenty of NS classes that did not exist before OS X.

I didn’t say the code is the same. I said it’s incorrect to say that “ns” has nothing to do with NeXTSTEP.

Even funnier, there's new ones added for Liquid Glass that still reference NS: NSGlassEffectView

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