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Cocoa

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Cocoa

Summary

Cocoa is an application programming interface[1]. Cocoa ranks in the top 9% of application_programming_interface entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (712 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cocoa's instance of is recorded as application programming interface[3].
  • Cocoa's instance of is recorded as software framework[4].
  • Cocoa's instance of is recorded as widget toolkit[5].
  • Cocoa's developer is recorded as Apple Inc.[6].
  • Cocoa's programmed in is recorded as Objective-C[7].
  • Cocoa's official website is recorded as https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/OSX_Technology_Overview/CocoaApplicationLayer/CocoaApplicationLayer.html[8].
  • Cocoa's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/cocoa[9].

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Cultural Impact

Things named for Cocoa include Cocoa Touch[10], an application programming interface[11].

Why It Matters

Cocoa ranks in the top 9% of application_programming_interface entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (712 views/month).[2] Cocoa has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] Cocoa is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Entities named for Cocoa include Cocoa Touch[10], an application programming interface[11].

Related Entities

Apple Inc. application programming interface Carbon macOS Objective-C SimulaBeta XML User Interface Language

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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