On 13 Jun 2015, at 15:33, Maxthon Chan <m...@maxchan.info> wrote: > I don’t think Objective-C will ever be shut down since Swift also links to > libobjc runtime library, which means Swift is, technically, a dialect of > Objective-C with some syntactic sugar and compile-time checks allowing some > more advanced programming techniques. Think this like the relationship > between C#, Visual Basic .net, C++ CLI and F#, which all ends up being > dialects of C#.
You’re conflating things here. They’re not related to C#, they just use the same “Common Language Runtime” (CLR) that was originally developed for C#. Similarly, while Swift uses a few parts of the ObjC runtime, that does not mean they won't stop offering ObjC on new hardware at some point (e.g. that mythical ARM Mac) and only keep the parts that are needed for Swift (which could include dropping the @objc keyword from Swift on those platforms). > BTW, how will Apple support Swift on Linux? Open source Foundation and full > version of CoreFoundation at the same time? How will the existing > Objective-C-on-Linux projects like GNUstep handle that? You only get Swift and the Swift standard library on Linux, no Foundation or CoreFoundation. That is transparently bridged in on Apple platforms, but nowhere else. _______________________________________________ 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
