Why objective-C? Perl would get the job done faster, cheaper, and with a larger installed base of people who can make contributions.
With Perl, it is more difficult to add bindings that make it usable in C/Obj-C/etc. On the other hand, with C function callbacks to the Objective C objects, it is possible to add a Perl XSub implementation/interface in about 20 minutes.
If there's any part of the Perl programming that is too slow, please demonstrate it with benchmarks. I doubt that *any* part of the current program is CPU bound. It's almost certainly I/O and operating-system bound, which means that the choice of language should be made based on cost of development, not raw speed. Even having said that, you can always optimize Perl, usually even staying within Perl, but sometimes by popping into C, which is easy with Inline::C.
Exactly. This is why I believe that if we build it in Objective-C, bridging it to other languages is simple, whereas the other way around requires much more effort.
Thank you, Kyle Moffett
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