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by lukeh 11y ago
Also, not using Apple's libobjc misses out on years of optimisation. e.g. compare the implementations of objc_sync_enter() (not that @synchronized is necessarily that common). Couldn't find their implementation of objc_msgSend, in
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by lukeh 11y ago
http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/08/06/windows-bri... has some more details. Projections look cool!
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by lukeh 11y ago
sysctlbyname() implementation in Frameworks/CoreFoundation/CFMisc.mm does not check the destination buffer size.
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by lukeh 11y ago
I'm surprised they didn't use Apple's libobjc nor CoreFoundation; a quick look at the Foundation/CoreFoundation code suggests it's nowhere near as complete as Apportable's. The rest looks impressive though and
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by lukeh 11y ago
This could also read as an April Fools' Day article circa about 1998!
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by lukeh 11y ago
+[Cryptography generateRandomBytes] should possibly return NSData rather than NSMutableData.
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by lukeh 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8514169
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by lukeh 11y ago
My limited understanding is that LLVM bitcode doesn't insulate you completely from the ABI/platform differences, e.g. between 32- and 64-bit. So I wonder if they'll be "fat" binaries. Coincidentally, there's be
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by lukeh 11y ago
It's not all of CF and some of the ObjC glue is missing, particularly in the last few drops. Apportable put most of if back in though.
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by lukeh 11y ago
Possibly talking about different things when you say "stdlib"?
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by lukeh 11y ago
It's always just a SMOP, but my hunch is that Swift is way too integrated with the Apple runtime to not use it. I wouldn't be surprised if they have limited support for ObjC in their Swift Linux port, but happy to be proven wrong.
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by lukeh 11y ago
Be interesting to see if they support @objc on Linux, the Apple runtime is difficult to support because it requires the dynamic linker to notify libobjc when an image is loaded.
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by lukeh 11y ago
Maybe MS will do it given they're porting ObjC.
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by lukeh 11y ago
Pretty cool! (No arpeggiator? :))
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by lukeh 11y ago
Will be interesting to see if Microsoft sought a license from Apple for Project Islandwood...
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by lukeh 11y ago
In 1996 I ported a large bunch of code from NEXTSTEP to Windows using the GNU runtime. That was all pre-OpenStep (OK, it wasn't, but the code didn't use Foundation, had no UI, etc, so it didn't depend on any class libraries b
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by lukeh 11y ago
Squinting at the debugger screenshots, instance variables that are private in the 2.0 runtime are visible (e.g. instance_size). I wonder if they used the Apple runtime...
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by lukeh 11y ago
And it's possible Apple will open source it - although if they do I imagine it will be more work to integrate with a foreign runtime (if indeed that is what MS has done) than to use Apple's own.
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by lukeh 11y ago
They don't have a good reputation, do they. But, it depends on how much engineering resource Microsoft dedicate (and of course, how quickly Apple evolve their APIs/applications make use of them).
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by lukeh 11y ago
Indeed. Tell any ex-NeXT person circa 1996 that MS would be effectively building their own OPENSTEP for Windows and no one would have believed you. Will be interesting see how they implemented it and whether they used Apportable's Foun
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by lukeh 12y ago
Interesting. Yes, I really admire Ableton as a company and as a product. Unfortunately for the music I make, Pro Tools makes more sense (of course, I'm sure if I switched I would survive!).
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by lukeh 12y ago
Great video! I'd be interested to see the Avid equivalent (don't get me wrong, I love Pro Tools, but it seems like a culturally different organization).
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by lukeh 12y ago
Which reminds me, I just checked out Apportable's Foundation. It has come a long way since the earlier GNUstep-based one. Impressive!
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by lukeh 12y ago
I suspect if Apple wants Swift to target other platforms they'll use their own compiler.
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by lukeh 12y ago
This looks interesting, although adding language extensions makes me a bit nervous. What's the ABI compatibility story when targeting Cocoa? Can I mix and match with native Swift classes? Is the native Swift runtime used?
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by lukeh 12y ago
Heh, I remember this too. For a brief time in the late 90s I was responsible for porting NeXT's NetInfo to a bunch of different Unixes. I think, though, we mainly used gcc except on SunOS, because it was free and handled modern C synta
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by lukeh 12y ago
Persona is/was great. It's hard to get a grassroots/delegated identity service off the ground when everyone has a Facebook/Google account (and doesn't understand the privacy tradeoff). The lack of support for delega
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by lukeh 12y ago
Seems like EXIF data was originally to be included as part of the base spec (see dangling reference to exif_present_flag).
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by lukeh 12y ago
Really impressive stuff.
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by lukeh 12y ago
OS X user land was being synced with FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc as far back as 1997.

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