Hi,
On 11/24/19 10:11 AM, 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 would add that as a minus and warning point.
Should we really follow Apple blindly in these decisions? I don't think
so. Apple's interest in MacOS long dwindled and became apparent in its
renaming as macOS.
I personally don't care about Swift... but I would find if useful for
the FOSS world if people could use Swift + GNUstep.
But here a question: what if in the future Apple will switch over to
Swift totally? An evolution in the APIs and hypothetical Swift 2.0 which
would make Objective-C incompatible. What then? Should GNUstep follow
blindly?
It is the same question we are having here now, just time-shifted. I
suppose you can guess my answer implicitly.
Riccardo
