On 13 Sep 2010, at 13:53, Vincent Richomme wrote: >>> GNU ObjC has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort > > In the same time do you have an idea of how many people are interested > in gnustep ? > I would be very curious to know it. > DO you some some fugures ?
I've absolutely no idea. I suspect that OS X and the iPhone have increased interest a bit, and will a bit more once we have a UIKit implementation, but I don't have any real figures. The only data point I have is that all of the talks I gave at FOSDEM this year had people standing up in the audience because there weren't enough chairs in our devroom for everyone. I'm not condemning GCC for its stance. C and C++ are definitely much more popular languages than Objective-C, and I wouldn't blame them if they decided to completely drop Objective-C support. No one's really worked on it for around 7 years and the code that they inherited from NeXT is basically unmaintainable. I just get fed up with people saying 'we have to make an effort to support GCC because we are also a GNU project' when people on the GCC side say that supporting us is too much effort. David -- Send from my Jacquard Loom _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
