Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 5th Nov 2006 22:59 UTC
David Chisnall takes a look behind the scenes at Apple's upcoming revamp of the Objective-C language. As with any new language, some things are good, some are ugly, and some are both.
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Here we are again, talking about yet another language that tries to be ST like.
but still, it's not the panacea, in particular for developping desktop applications (I know, there's the WxWorks bridge..), Objective-C with Cocoa+InterfaceBuilder (or GNUstep+Gorm on the rest of the world) is _so much_ better for that task...
Just use ST!
Objective-C is not a "new" language. It has the nice advantage over Smalltalk of beeing a strict superset of C -- therefore it's damn easy to integrate or reuse C (or C++) code with Objective-C. And create components. And be fast.
Beside, you're talking about Squeak, which I happened to like *a lot*
Give me a working bridge between Squeak and the Objective-C runtime (so we could transparently use Cocoa/GNUstep from Squeak) and things will be different (to be fair there is an existing Squeak/Cocoa bridge, but callbacks aren't possible, hence making it nearly useless, sadly).