Why Ruby?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-12-19 11:11:03 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> I can clearly see that you haven't used an Objective-C/D bridge. The 
> reason (or at least one of the reasons) for which Michel Fortin (as 
> well as I) gave up the Objective-C/D bridge and started to modify DMD 
> is template bloat. I'm not saying that using template strings as 
> lambdas is going to bloat your executable/library as much as the bridge 
> does but I always think twice before adding a template to my code.

I also want to add that the code bloat in the D/Objective-C bridge was 
more because the bridge needed to create two stubs for each method in 
all Cocoa classes, and those stubs contained code to translate 
exceptions from one model to the other. Using templates and mixins made 
the creation of those stubs easy, but I don't think another method of 
generating these stubs would have faired better.

So the bloat came from the approach (generating stubs for everything) 
much more than the implementation choice (templates). The new approach 
is to avoid having to generate stubs by exposing directly the 
Objective-C objects rather than wrappers around them. Less wrapping, 
less bloat.


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Michel Fortin
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