Re: a c++11 wrapper for gnustep libraries

[Usama makhzoum]

On 5/10/21 11:20 PM, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Am 10.05.2021 um 20:58 schrieb أسامة مخزوم <osmakh1@gmail.com>:
> >
> > hi all
> >
> > I am thinking of a C++11 wrapper for base, gui and other libraries, may be it 
> > is easier to do than another PL (because of objective-c++ existence). however, 
> > i want to hear from you: I would like to have opinions and whether if there was 
> > a attemp to do this (with c++98, for example).
> >
> > This also can give gnustep (another step). macosX developers always searches for c++ 
> > wrappers around cocoa and friends. before they enforced deeply to objc and swift, they 
> > simply wishing the last wish "I hope that someone did it". so maybe a c++ 
> > wrapper can make gnutep famous for the mac development, rather.
> On macOS C++ is not the primary language (except for kernel drivers). It is 
> ObjC and Swift.
>
> IMHO, objc++ exists because there are some interesting C++ based libraries 
> (e.g. data processing, business logic, file format decoders) where it should be 
> possible to integrate them into objc based GUI apps. So in MVC architecture, 
> C++ would be mainly used for providing an existing data model.

this could be also a reason for writing such a wrapper. why doing things 
in two language becomes the standard way? think of it as you were using 
python and have to do GUI staff with Qt, does i have to try py-c++ or to 
use a wrapper like pyqt?


GNUSTEP framework is a very easy-and-popular framework, i like it both 
with developing, and in use. and I think it will make another little 
advance if there was some easy/neat way to use from c++ (and many other 
programming languages, like perl, and even javascript), i assume some 
progress when a c++ programmer (thinks in terms of templates, 
mutli-inheritance and smartpointers) has access to GNUSTEP. I know that 
i didn't invent something new or make things impossible as possible. I 
want to help people that like c++-syntax to consider gnustep as an 
option, after all.

> I wonder what a use case of the reverse wrapping would be.

a syntax-sugar, or convince wrapper is the main goal.  maybe used as 
additional gui-frontend for a c++  graphical or command line application 
without too much diving into obj-c++.