[Cocoa-sharp] The State of the Art

[Martin White]

What is Objecive C 2.0 going to bring to the party that you are  
patiently waiting for?

Just interested because like most other people here I'm a .NET  
developer for a living struggling to get a foot hold on any language  
in particular on OSX.

Martin



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On 23 Feb 2007, at 10:49, Todd Schavey wrote:

> Stefano,
>
> From a software enhancement standpoint, I really don't know how  
> active CoocaSharp is. I've been on the mailing list for about 2.5  
> months and have not see a software "patch" the entire time. I,  
> personally, I been working on a tutorial for C# WinForm Programmers  
> trying to using CocoaSharp. Duirng this process I have found  
> several addition to the CocoaSharp framework that need to be added.  
> So....I added them to my local copy...but simply do not have any  
> guideance as to how to get this code in the official distribution.
>
> I've yet to see and 'leadership' step forward. Miguel of mono swung  
> by breifly to nix the idea of CocoaSharp migrating to the Mono  
> wiki....but that about it.
>
> This all adds up to frustration and I'm already having doubts  
> whether I simply will finish the tutorial I've got started, post  
> it...and then wait patiently for Objective-C 2.0
>
> C#, in my opinion, is currently the 'best' compiled language to  
> develop in. However, Cocoa (a.k.a. OpenStep) was written in  
> Objective-C and for Objective-C. After taking a swang at the  
> awkward language....I have to say that I quickly warmed to the  
> language....but havng to perform allocs, deallocs, retains, and  
> releases....quickly threw me back to the dark age of 90's (grin).
>
> I still hold a lot of promise with CocoaSharp....I just wish  
> whatever leadership is on the seemingly sinking ship would crawl  
> out from the rock there under and give a little direction.
>
> Todd
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