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So yet another platform and market - which I think is great news for developers. I kind of have an insane dream where maybe instead of going for the usual plat

by kenshi 17y ago

So yet another platform and market - which I think is great news for developers. I kind of have an insane dream where maybe instead of going for the usual platform candidate of say, a C derived language, Java platform or some kind of Web derived platform (widgets, WebOS et al), maybe someone will take a risk on doing something different. Imagine if the Kindle platform was say, Scheme or Lua based? With a very simple (shallow not deep) set of libraries to access the screen, storage and network facilities. It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it.

francoisdevlin 17y ago
Or, you could hope for Java and use Clojure :)
- kenshi 17y ago
  Yeah you can embed various languages into C-based and Java-based platforms. It's not quite the same thing as the official platform being based on such languages. The official platform will always have more mindshare, and thus support, in the way of things like: - open source code - developer support/discussion - systems libraries designed with the strengths/weaknesses of the platform in mind
  - francoisdevlin 17y ago
    Play with Clojure's Java interop facilities. You'll find you get all three of those points for free.
lsb 17y ago
Lua's designed to be embedded, no? And it loads into C, which is a strict subset of Objective-C, so that should be relatively straightforward. Same with Guile Scheme, no?
- probablycorey 17y ago
  It's called iPhone Wax! A Lua/Objective-C Bridge http://github.com/probablycorey/wax http://github.com/probablycorey/wax
AndrewO 17y ago
The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse. By the look of the syntax highlighting and flow of indentation, my guess would be Java (or possibly C++). > It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it. Amen.
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  "The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse." Which may just be $StockPhotoOfDevEnvironment

by kenshi 17y ago

francoisdevlin 17y ago

Or, you could hope for Java and use Clojure :)

kenshi 17y ago
Yeah you can embed various languages into C-based and Java-based platforms. It's not quite the same thing as the official platform being based on such languages. The official platform will always have more mindshare, and thus support, in the way of things like: - open source code - developer support/discussion - systems libraries designed with the strengths/weaknesses of the platform in mind
- francoisdevlin 17y ago
  Play with Clojure's Java interop facilities. You'll find you get all three of those points for free.

lsb 17y ago

Lua's designed to be embedded, no? And it loads into C, which is a strict subset of Objective-C, so that should be relatively straightforward. Same with Guile Scheme, no?

probablycorey 17y ago
It's called iPhone Wax! A Lua/Objective-C Bridge http://github.com/probablycorey/wax http://github.com/probablycorey/wax

AndrewO 17y ago

The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse. By the look of the syntax highlighting and flow of indentation, my guess would be Java (or possibly C++). > It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it. Amen.

jamesbritt 17y ago
"The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse." Which may just be $StockPhotoOfDevEnvironment