On 07/11/2012, at 10:45 AM, John Delacour <j...@bd8.com> wrote: > On 06/11/2012 00:47, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> One compromise you might consider is using Ruby, which has pretty >> decent integration with Cocoa. (Ditto for Python, but Ruby is more >> Perl-esque.) It’s possible to write Cocoa apps entirely in those >> languages. > > Thank you. The Ruby option does look rather attractive especially since > I could learn Ruby in quite a short time and at the end of it be as > happy writing Ruby code as Perl code. At the same time I think I get > the message that I’d do best to struggle on with Objective-C and see if > my aversion lessens. >
I'm curious - isn't the fact that none of those languages support true multithreading a rather big hindrance when programming a Cocoa Application? How would you put together a responsive application without it? I used to do perl for a living, and to my knowledge multithreading was never bug-free and functional. Ruby and python are exactly the same - they all support forking new processes a-la UNIX style, but no real OS-level threads (IIRC, both ruby and python, in all their implementations but the java-based ones include a big mutex.) Has this changed? Or is there a way around it? Thanks, -- ank _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
