Pharo can already communicate natively with objective C and all its libraries via Nativeboost. An example is Mars on Pharo.
http://marsonpharo.wordpress.com/ Nativeboost of course can communicate with C and it even offers an inline Assembler so you can go down to bare metal having all the speed and performance you want. Nativeboost cannot communicate with C++ currently , so it cant use C++ libraries like VTK , however there is a workaround. It is possible to wrap a C++ to a C DLL (or the equivelant of other OS) , thus indirectly Nativeboost can use even C++ libraries. Here is how -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/199418/using-c-library-in-c-code Overall when dealing with C/C++ you have to deal with all sort of technically issues that you don't have in pharo. The problem also becomes even worse because C/C++ libraries usually are not made with simplicity in mind. In the case for example of CAD software with pharo this is of course doable but you will need to have a very deep understanding how 3d graphics works which is a highly technically area by itself. So as you can see there are loads of technically problems to overcome even before worrying about Pharo. But none the less its doable. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 5:24 AM, askoh <as...@askoh.com> wrote: > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dc552/papers/SmalltalkInACWorld.pdf > > The paper talks about Smalltalk and Objective C coexisting equally in a > software development environment. And by virtual of ObjC compatibility with > C/C++, the whole C world is open to Smalltalk. Isn't this very exciting? > Anyone else noticing this? Can Pragmatic Smalltalk be used to develop a CAD > system using the OpenCascade and Visualization Toolkit (VTK) open source > libraries? > > Can this work help us enter the Apple ecosystem? > > All the best, > Aik-Siong Koh > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Smalltalk-in-a-C-World-tp4728217.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > >
