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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
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