On Sep 13, 2010, at 6:08 AM, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote:
On 13 Sep 2010, at 13:53, Vincent Richomme wrote:
GNU ObjC has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort
In the same time do you have an idea of how many people are
interested
in gnustep ?
I would be very curious to know it.
DO you some some fugures ?
I've absolutely no idea. I suspect that OS X and the iPhone have
increased interest a bit, and will a bit more once we have a UIKit
implementation, but I don't have any real figures. The only data
point I have is that all of the talks I gave at FOSDEM this year had
people standing up in the audience because there weren't enough
chairs in our devroom for everyone.
I'm not condemning GCC for its stance. C and C++ are definitely
much more popular languages than Objective-C, and I wouldn't blame
them if they decided to completely drop Objective-C support. No
one's really worked on it for around 7 years and the code that they
inherited from NeXT is basically unmaintainable. I just get fed up
with people saying 'we have to make an effort to support GCC because
we are also a GNU project' when people on the GCC side say that
supporting us is too much effort.
Well if apple did the work like they should have done. This would not
be an issue. So I still say blame apple and not support clang for the
same reason.
David
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