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I try to get the hang of it, but for now both seem the same thing to me. However, Xcode allows to create an Console App with choice of using "Core Foundation" or just "Foundation". Maybe someone can point out the differences.
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Core Foundation is a general-purpose C framework whereas Foundation is a general-purpose Objective-C framework. Both provide collection classes, run loops, etc, and many of the Foundation classes are wrappers around the CF equivalents. CF is mostly open-source, and Foundation is closed-source.
Core Foundation (also called CF) is a C application programming interface (API) written by Apple for its operating systems, and is a mix of low-level routines and wrapper functions.
The Foundation framework provides a base layer of functionality for apps and frameworks, including data storage and persistence, text processing, date and time calculations, sorting and filtering, and networking.
Foundation. The Foundation framework defines a base layer of functionality that is required for almost all applications. It provides primitive classes and introduces several paradigms that define functionality not provided by the language or runtime.
Core Foundation is the C-level API, which provides CFString, CFDictionary and the like.
Foundation is Objective-C, which provides NSString, NSDictionary, etc.
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CoreFoundation is written in C while Foundation is written in Objective-C;
Foundation has a lot more classes;
CoreFoundation is the common base of Foundation and Carbon.
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