Lars, Thank you very much for relaying this information. :) I was wondering what was new in the new release.
Yours, GC On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:22 PM lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de < lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > > around this time of the year Apple uses to hold its „World Wide Developer > Conference“ or short WWDC to reveal what new features of their OSes they > have developed over the last year. > > Since GNUstep is a free (as in speech) and open implementation of Cocoa, I > thought it might be of interest for us of „What's new in Foundation“ > / „What's new in AppKit“ this year. > > Because of COVID WWDC21 is a virtual online conference this year (like the > year ago) and everything is available as free (as in beer) online videos > which can be watched without registration on every modern web browser (I > tried current versions of Safari, Firefox and Chrome and experienced no > problems). All the videos are available here: > https://developer.apple.com/wwdc21/sessions/ > > Of most interest for GNUstep should be those two sessions: > > What's new in Foundation — > https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10109/ — 37:30 min > > and > > What's new in AppKit — > https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10054/ — 21:30 min > > While all of the code examples shown in those videos are in Swift (which > is the case since Apple went „full in“ on Swift some years ago) the basic > changes seem to be made to the ObjC layer at least where it made sense. > There are some short mentions of this matter of fact made by the hosts of > both sessions — it’s just not presented on the silver plate for us, we > might have to dig their documentation for the details. Nevertheless I think > both videos are a good overview and entry point for finding out what has > changed, therefore I posted those links here. > > Enjoy! > > > Kind regards, > > Lars > -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=352392 - Become a Patron https://gf.me/u/x8m3sx - My GNUstep GoFundMe https://teespring.com/stores/gnustep - Store
