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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by MintelIE on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:33AM (#23517898)
Objective-C was a very interesting language, in some ways much better than C++ while filling the same type of role. It's a shame that so much effort is being thrown away by Apple. I recommend anybody who has an Objective-C program that they don't wish to rewrite in Swift to look into GNUstep. I personally have two Objective-C projects which I will not be porting to Swift, instead I will port them from Cocoa to GNUstep.
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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by wool_gather on Sunday June 14, 2020 @01:04PM (#23519323)
I'm curious why you feel the need to port them at all? ObjC is pretty far from dead. Perhaps the ObjC runtime will be abandoned by Apple at some point, but I can't see even deprecation (not removal from their shipping systems) taking less than a decade.

In particular, note that Swift on Darwin platforms is intimately tied to the ObjC runtime. I wouldn't be surprised if there are long-range aspirations to change that, but it's not feasible in any short term.

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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by frou_dh on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:46PM (#23519159)
Where's the pressure to rewrite an existing application in Swift coming from?
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Re:The origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and its evolu... by justinmeiners on Sunday June 14, 2020 @12:14PM (#23518870)
If it is non-GUI I also recommend Objfw
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