Re:Interview with author of Cappuccino and Objective-J
by tlrobinson on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @03:09PM
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So far there are very few actual syntax additions slated for Objective-J 2.0, and it will be of course be backwards compatible, so we have a large base of existing tests and applications to test against.
Most of the features of Objective-J 2.0 are around what the new parser enables us to do "under the hood" rather than in syntax:
1. dramatically improved performance, in particular eliminating the "with" statements in generated code
2. line number parity in generated code for easier debugging
3. possibly features that require knowing types at compile time:
Most of the features of Objective-J 2.0 are around what the new parser enables us to do "under the hood" rather than in syntax:
1. dramatically improved performance, in particular eliminating the "with" statements in generated code
2. line number parity in generated code for easier debugging
3. possibly features that require knowing types at compile time:
* aggressive dead-code stripping
* function inlining
* optional static type checking
* object immutability
* Objective-C 2.0-style properties