www.anubis-os.org finally open

[yakumo9275]

It has been decided that we are going to use Objective C for all the core code in the project. The reason is that we get a tried and tested object model, stay relatively programming language neutral and get a lot of framework code for free. For now, much of this framework code is borrowed from the GNU Step project.

eecch. obj-c is horrendous. sounds like anubis is sucking down the apple-loving-juice too much.

the open source world isn't exactly flooded with talented obj-c programmers so I think this will backfire a bit...

milestone 1 makes for an interesting read...

who knows, maybe they will pull it off.

[yakumo9275]

da9000 wrote:
You obviously never programmed in/with Objective-C.

Of course, you know every language I've ever programmed in, so it must be true!

da9000 wrote:
Clue: Objective-C wasn't created by Apple, so there's no sucking apple-loving-juice. The genius we should thank for it is Brad J. Cox (http://www.virtualschool.edu/cox/)

CLUE: I never said it was created by Apple.
But Apple are the only ones using it. Of course, if its apple promoted it must be sheer AWESOMENESS.

da9000 wrote:
Yeah, right. Please come out of whatever rock you live in.

You mean the real world that I live in?

da9000 wrote:
If you haven't noticed Apple's ascent and the proliferation of iPhone applications, then there's not much point discussing things, but just in case: there are tens of thousands of iPhone developers, and most are doing Obj-C stuff. And of course there are more and more Mac OS X developers each day. And in fact, most of them, at least to me, seem very talented.

I guess all those tens of thousands of iphone developers are releasing open source and just dieing to jump on the anubis band wagon.

So with all those rocking hot cool iphone developers floating around the place, why hasnt GNU Step taken over the world...

Since there is a metric {bleep}tonne more obj-c coders than c or c++ around I guess anubis will just pop up complete in a couple of months right?

Everyone must be dieing to line up to to come hack on a gnustep distribution.

As I stated in my op and other posts I think the milestone 1 is interesting and I still think basing it on linux kernel is the proper thing to do, I just dont think obj-c was the best choice.