a good start is http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/9 If I understand well, its about finer granularity and management of concurrent process. To allow, this, objective-c has be extended with new entities called blocks. Blocks have a very small footprint by comparison to threads, so actually it is easer to program because you use them extensively with almost no worry. Le 7 juil. 2010 à 01:46, JosepM a écrit :
> > Hi, > > I read some post about a new language that will be replace the Objective-c > called xLang. > > Any idea? This can affect the next releases of Rev? > > http://9to5mac.com/node/19165 > > > We’re leaving this one open to the floor for comment, but would like to note > that operating systems must also grow, and development environments must > continue to re-invent themselves as rationale to give this one air time, but > there's a rumor Apple's developing a new dev language to succeed > Objective-C... > DF reports via Michael Tsai one Jesper, who writes: > > “After watching the eminently early and freely available WWDC 2010 session > videos, I think my scales have finally tipped. It is my belief that Apple is > definitely working on a new language to surpass Objective-C as their > intended, primary, publicly recommended programming language, which I will > call “xlang”.” > > Clang, according to Wikipedia, is a compiler front end for the C, C++, and > Objective-C programming languages. It uses the Low Level Virtual Machine > (LLVM) as its back end. Its goal is to offer a replacement to the GNU > Compiler Collection (GCC). Development is sponsored by Apple, and the source > code is licensed using a BSD-like open-source license. > > This could be part of the company’s plans as developers seem to be beginning > to wax lyrical on how Objective-C may need tweaking. > > Your thoughts? > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-about-the-new-language-from-Apple-tp2280329p2280329.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution