[Cocoa-sharp] The State of the Art

[Martin White]

Ahh, thanks for the reply's guys. Looks like I should probably dig a  
little deeper into my ADC mailings :o)


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On 23 Feb 2007, at 14:45, Todd Schavey wrote:

> 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:
> 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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