From: "James F.  Hranicky" <jfh@...>
Date: 2004-05-14T19:44:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Rite implementation in C++? (Objective C?)

On Fri, 14 May 2004 08:23:51 +0900
ptkwt@aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) wrote:

> I've been thinking lately that it might be easier to do a Ruby 
> implementation in Objective-C.  Seems like it could make life a bit easier 
> because Objective-C and Ruby have some things in common philosophically.  
> Also you could take advantage of Obj-C's collection classes where needed.
> Since Objective-C is just an add-on to C it probably wouldn't be too hard 
> to build on existing code.  Also, Objective C is supported by GCC.

I brought this up a long time ago, but I don't know if I brought it up well.

I think it would be great if Ruby could be used as a frontend for the ObjC
runtime for GNUstep or OSX. Ruby Objects are just handles for ObjC objects.

Ideally, any extension written in ObjC would automatically be available in
Ruby.

Feasible? I have no idea, but if it is, it seems like you could get just about
all the features desired out of such a backend, since they're already there in
the ObjC runtime.

Jim