I hope by 'take another look' you mean 'continue looking at and working on it'.
I hope you do not mean 'consider whether Microsoft may be opening up enough to release an free/open version of it', as that may or may not happen. :-) On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected] > wrote: > Given what is happening in MS land I really feel strongly that we need to > take another look at doing this and making a Free/Open version of the > UIKit. > > GC > > > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:55 AM Luis Garcia Alanis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On the vide http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2015/3-610 >> >> at time 57:30 it seems to indicate that Ms is also working on a swift >> compiler. >> >> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Alessandro Sangiuliano < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The interesting thing, in addition that MS made objective-c and a >>> compatible framework with the Apple one, is to see how the swift situation >>> will evolve. >>> >>> MS done this "port", because they don't have a large set of Apps in >>> their store for mobile Windows, and the developers focusing Windows for >>> phones were very few respect Android and iOS. This is a strategy to make >>> easier the port of Apps from iOs to Windows (phone or how they call it), >>> but I think this was quite obvious to all here. >>> >>> If this will have success, and windows (phone) will start to take is >>> piece of the cake in the smartphone market, why a developer should choice >>> swift respet objective-c? Swift for now runs only on Apple, obj-c runs on >>> linux, *bsd, hurd and now "natively" (without mingw or other stuffs) also >>> on Windows (phone and PCs, for what I saw from the video), and it is >>> integrated in Visual Studio too. >>> >>> Will be Swift just a fan boys language? Who now if now the chaces to be >>> released as open source are increased? And how much it will be usefull now, >>> if it will be released? >>> At last, Swift what has more than obj-c? They claim it is faster than >>> obj-c. The only reason I was waiting for swift, was the hope to see it with >>> a garbage collector instead of ARC, this not happened, and will not happen, >>> I think, so for me became a useless language. >>> >>> Alex. >>> >>> >>> Il 02/05/2015 19:38, Gregory Casamento ha scritto: >>> >>> What I find most frustrating is the fact that we thought about doing >>> this a long time ago. It's a lesson to me, at least, to act on my instincts. >>> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 13:25 Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Great to see that you are taking this story with such good spirit. >>>> This is something I like about GNUstep. >>>> >>>> If you want to get more details from Microsoft here is a video >>>> http://channel9.msdn.com/events/Build/2015/3-610 >>>> You will have to skip to minute 33 for the Objective C demo, before >>>> that it is just some nice compiler changes. >>>> >>>> Fred >>>> >>>> On the road >>>> >>>> Am 01.05.2015 um 10:27 schrieb Ivan Vučica <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> That would be very surprising; why would they do that? >>>> >>>> :-) >>>> >>>> sent from phone >>>> On May 1, 2015 09:26, "David Chisnall" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 30 Apr 2015, at 23:43, Fred Kiefer <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > On the other hand, I find it very frustrating to see how fast they >>>>> implemented something that we have been working on for years. >>>>> >>>>> I am led to believe that Microsoft employs some full-time developers. >>>>> >>>>> David >>>>> >>>>> -- Sent from my IBM 1620 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnustep mailing >>> [email protected]https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > >
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