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by cfrs 4213 days ago
Foundation is actually open source http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/CF/CF-855.11/CFString...
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That's CoreFoundation, not Foundation. CoreFoundation is plain C and relatively small in feature set. Foundation is Objective-C and much larger.

It's a lot easier to work with the Foundation Objective-C API. They both manipulate the same data structures (or nearly the same with zero-cost bridging) but Foundation is far less verbose and a little more dynamic (no need for manual buffer allocations and configuring callback structures).

There is Foundation implementation based on CoreFoundation: https://github.com/apportable/Foundation