Hi David,

> a language (which is somewhat dated even in its latest incarnation). 

I would love to know your thoughts with respect to that point, if you'd care to 
share (off list if you'd prefer). Or might you have a talk/article you could 
point me to?

Regards,
Patryk

> On Dec 26, 2018, at 06:53, David Chisnall <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Dec 2018, at 18:30, Bertrand Dekoninck <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>    - port rik to objc1 and have it  up-to-date on ppc.
> 
> Is this really a good use of your time?  One of the problems with GNUstep is 
> the perception that we’re stuck with a 30-year-old framework and a 
> 20-year-old version of a language (which is somewhat dated even in its latest 
> incarnation).  If you care about PowerPC, why not work on supporting a modern 
> Objective-C dialect on PowerPC, rather than on rewriting everything that you 
> want to use in an archaic one?
> 
> As far as I know, clang should be able to target PowerPC and libobjc2 should 
> run happily on PowerPC (though will be missing objc_msgSend and 
> imp_implementationWithBlock unless someone wants to contribute the PowerPC 
> assembly versions - they’re not that hard if you know the target assembly, 
> but I have no interest in PowerPC so no motivation to learn another new ISA 
> just to write a couple of dozen lines of code for it).
> 
> David
> 
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