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Operating System Specific Discussions => Other Operating Systems => Topic started by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 02:37:46 PM

Title: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 02:37:46 PM
Sony have announced they are going to be using GNU Step for their future products... That could inject some vital development money/time into the project!

I'm wondering if Sony are hoping to cash in on the number of new Obj-C coders who have grown up around the Apple ecosystem? It seems like a slightly odd choice to me, but not a bad one!

Now, where is our Amiga GNUStep port? The Amiga seriously lacks an objective-c runtime for those who would use it :)
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: Karlos on November 25, 2010, 02:54:34 PM
Quote from: bloodline;594299
The Amiga seriously lacks an objective-c runtime for those who would use it :)


I'm counting at least one so far ;)
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: nicholas on November 25, 2010, 03:00:38 PM
Quote from: bloodline;594299
Sony have announced they are going to be using GNU Step for their future products... That could inject some vital development money/time into the project!

I'm wondering if Sony are hoping to cash in on the number of new Obj-C coders who have grown up around the Apple ecosystem? It seems like a slightly odd choice to me, but not a bad one!

Now, where is our Amiga GNUStep port? The Amiga seriously lacks an objective-c runtime for those who would use it :)


Didn't the Anubis guys port one?
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 03:02:52 PM
Quote from: Karlos;594301
I'm counting at least one so far ;)
In the Amiga community that counts as 900million... ;)

Actually, I've been so involved with microcontrollers recently I haven't touched an Obj-C in at least a month... I've probably forgotten everything by now...
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 03:06:05 PM
Quote from: nicholas;594303
Didn't the Anubis guys port one?
Anubis didn't get much further then talking about porting something from somewhere... ;)

I was pretty keen on the project, but I think my ideas were at odds with most others... And now AROS is running on the 68k my attention has shifted, since it's a bit more interesting :)
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: nicholas on November 25, 2010, 03:10:42 PM
Quote from: bloodline;594305
Anubis didn't get much further then talking about porting something from somewhere... ;)

I was pretty keen on the project, but I think my ideas were at odds with most others... And now AROS is running on the 68k my attention has shifted, since it's a bit more interesting :)


Why not combine your love of both and try to port the GNU ObjC runtime to AROS?
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 03:20:08 PM
Quote from: nicholas;594307
Why not combine your love of both and try to port the GNU ObjC runtime to AROS?
I wouldn't know where to begin... The time required is also too much right now :(
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: Lando on November 25, 2010, 04:54:07 PM
I really dislike Objective C.  Much more than I disliked C++ after moving from C.  iPhone programming is still fun, though not as fun as it could be.
Title: Re: Sony to use GNUStep!
Post by: bloodline on November 25, 2010, 04:58:29 PM
Well with objective-c you are basically just working in plan c anyway... You don't have to structure your projects using it... And it is hardly an imposition using obj-c syntax to access the cocoa API :p

Anyway, I found this on Aminet... Not sure what it actually doea though, looks like an Obj-C preprocessor... Not sure how it would handle the runtime :-?

http://aminet.net/package/dev/c/OCT-1.99