Re: Re[2]: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard

[David Chisnall]

On 24 Nov 2007, at 01:04, Helge Hess wrote:

> But really, you will never get an ObjC framework as easy to learn as  
> a framework built on interpreted languages, be it Seaside, RoR or  
> Zope. If you start with ObjC, you always need to deal with RC, with  
> makefiles, with GCC, etc etc.

This is the focus of some of my current work, both with the GNU  
runtime and my own one; supporting other languages as first-class  
citizens on an Objective-C runtime.  I have done some work on a  
Smalltalk JIT using GNU Lightning targetting the GNU runtime and  
others are working on Io and JavaScript ports to my runtime.  In the  
next year, it should be possible to mix Objective-C, Io, Smalltalk  
(probably Self too) and JavaScript in the same application, so a fast  
Objective-C framework could be scripted in a slower, higher-level  
language.

David