That's quite sad, actually. But that is also part of the reason I'm doing this. There is a mindset against Objective-C at the moment and, right or wrong, this is the way to address it.
GC On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Robert Slover <[email protected]> wrote: > <observation> > For what it is worth, when I attended a recent Cocoa user group meetup, most > of the presentations were done in Swift. One of the guys doing his on > Objective-C apologized for doing so. Quite frankly, I was surprised. It had > been several months since I had attended, and previous presentations were all > Obj-C. > </observation> > >> On Oct 22, 2014, at 17:50, Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Dr. Schaller, >> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>>> Am 22.10.2014 um 21:11 schrieb Gregory Casamento >>>> <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Dr. Schaller, >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Am 22.10.2014 um 18:07 schrieb Ivan Vučica <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>> My understanding is that Phoenix is an implementation of Swift and not >>>>> Objective-C. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I see. >>>>> >>>>> Shouldn’t they have much code in common (except a different grammar)? >>>> >>>> >>>> If you believe that I can reuse anything from it, it would be nice. >>> >>> Well, I don’t know what you want to do and achieve and if I remember >>> correctly there was no deep discussion so far about GNUstep doing >>> anything with/for the Swift language (although it is quite forcing). >> >> There was, in fact, some discussion on these lines. There were >> postings to the list about swift when the language was first >> announced. The decision at that time was to write one if Apple >> didn't open theirs. That is what I'm doing. >> >>> Therefore it is difficult to recommend something for reuse. >>> >>>> >>>>> As you can see in the commit log, Gregory is involved with Phoenix. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ah, nice to know. >>>>> >>>>> How is that related to the GNUstep work? Does it help GNUstep or does it >>>>> distract Greg >>>>> from working for GNUstep? >>>> >>>> Nope. :) GNUstep is the main reason I'm doing this. GNUstep is >>>> always my first love and concern. >>> >>> I appreciate to hear that. It did look for me so far as a completely new >>> and different project that has nothing in common (except you working >>> for both). But I know from my projects that the outside view might not >>> reveal the connections. >> >> Swift, as I see it, is important for our future. Also, I wasn't sure >> if it was a good idea to put it into GNUstep's repo. I may still put >> a version of it there if needed. >> >>> >>> BR, >>> Nikolaus >>> >>> >>>> >>>>> BR, >>>>> Nikolaus >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> does anyone know more about this project >>>>>> >>>>>> https://source.ind.ie/project/phoenix/tree/master >>>>>> >>>>>> and how it relates to >>>>>> >>>>>> https://github.com/goldelico/mySTEP/tree/master/ObjC >>>>>> >>>>>> BR, >>>>>> Nikolaus >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Ivan Vučica >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Gregory Casamento >>>> Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant >>>> (240)274-9630 (Cell) >>>> http://www.gnustep.org >>>> http://heronsperch.blogspot.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> >> >> >> -- >> Gregory Casamento >> Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant >> (240)274-9630 (Cell) >> http://www.gnustep.org >> http://heronsperch.blogspot.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep -- Gregory Casamento Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant (240)274-9630 (Cell) http://www.gnustep.org http://heronsperch.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
