I would suggest that we should embrace ourselves for the impact of Apple open sourcing Swift, and adapt the GNUstep environment to take advantage of, or serve as a host of, the Swift 2.0 environment.
There are several possibilities in Apple open sourcing Swift, given its tight ties to Cocoa: 1) The Swift for Linux uses a different library and does not support Objective-C interoperability at all. This would be a bummer and we cannot cooperate with it. 2) Apple would submit a big patch set to one of the open source Cocoa reimplementation (including GNUstep) to bring it up to speed with Apple, and build Swift for Linux on top of that. If we are the receiving end of the patch set it would be a tremendous opportunity for us. 3) Apple open source their own Cocoa implementation to support Swift for Linux. We can then take advantage of that and start adapt GNUstep as a patch or additions to Cocoa for Linux. Max > On Nov 17, 2015, at 06:36, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > Interesting idea, I hope I got it right: > Would using linux-libre for "the" GNUstep (or NeXtStep) OS be > appropriate? > Could base it on one of these: > https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html > > -- > Svetlana A. Tkachenko > Member of the Free Software Foundation > www.fsf.org www.gnu.org www.freenode.net > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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