Re: Which ObjC2.0 features are missing in the latest GCC?

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 24.11.2019 um 11:36 schrieb Johannes Brakensiek <johan...@brakensiek.info>:
> 
> On 24 Nov 2019, at 10:11, Max Chan wrote:
> 
> I would like to add another plus for dropping GCC: if we want any hope for 
> Swift interworking, we have to use clang as the compiler.
> 
> Apple have no plan to provide any GUI support on Linux version of Swift. If 
> we have Swift interworking, even though we may have to drop our own libobjc, 
> Foundation and CoreFoundation in favor of Apple’s release, the GNUStep GUI 
> package can provide the replacement AppKit that Apple’s Swift release lacked.
> 
> I don’t know anything about Swift and it’s not AppKit, but maybe you already 
> recognized there now is:
> 
>       • https://github.com/Cosmo/OpenSwiftUI
>       • https://github.com/SwiftWebUI/SwiftWebUI

Nice projects, thank you for the links. SwiftWebUI is by Helge Hess and old 
friend of GNUstep. The last thing I heard from him was that he joined Apple. 
Looks like he is now back in Germany.