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Very interesting! On a slightly related note, I'd personally love to see more "C++ variants" (for lack of a better term) out there. By that, I'm referring to ec
by xtrapolate 8y ago
Very interesting! On a slightly related note, I'd personally love to see more "C++ variants" (for lack of a better term) out there. By that, I'm referring to ecosystems/languages that are essentially a simplified/abstracted/modernized version of C, but ones that also still allow you to "break out" back to classic C at will. Thank you for sharing.
- tzahola 8y agoObjective-C? D?
- xtrapolate 8y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but Objective-C's ecosystem is very much Apple-centric. Things in that regard have only started changing fairly recently.
- Volt 8y agoIt's always been cross-platform; GCC has supported it for decades. Apple's Cocoa libraries are Apple-centric, but there have long been alternatives like GNUStep.
- tzahola 8y agoApple-centric? The libraries in iOS and macOS, for sure. However, the language itself can be used anywhere where GCC is available.
- gumby 8y agoFWIW Objective-C predated Apple (or NeXT which adopted it and brought it to Apple) and was pared by Smalltalk.
- Yoric 8y agoAlso (sadly) Objective-C++.
- gumby 8y agoA few years ago I ran into Steve Naroff in a diner and that’s one of the first things he said to me: ‘I’m still amazed we got Objective-C++ to work’ (for both political and technical reasons). Was it ever widely uses? I was glad we did it and am glad to see that someone appreciated it!