[Cocoa-sharp] The State of the Art

[Todd Schavey]

it will basically be more "C#-ish". They are at minimum..adding properties
and garbage collection.

On 2/23/07, Martin White <martin at guddler.co.uk> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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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