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The highlight of this release for me: built-in support for the ObjFW Objective-C runtime. https://webkeks.org/blog/?5f https://webkeks.org/blog/?5f

• joshavant 14y ago
  So an Apple engineer spent time adding support for more 'liberal', non-Apple-based Objective-C runtimes? Wow! That seems unusual of Apple, but very cool. EDIT - Looking at the clang source, it looks like GNUstep and and ObjFW (with the exception of old GCC) are the only alternative Objective-C runtimes currently supported by clang: http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ObjCRuntime_8h_source.html http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/ObjCRuntime_8h_source.html
  • eridius 14y ago
    What other alternative runtimes even exist?
  • gsnedders 14y ago
    Unusual? It'd seem beneficial to Apple in several ways, in that they have multiple ABIs (see the code there!), and in that it keeps other Obj-C users interested in Clang (which means more outside work on the Obj-C frontend).