Why Ruby?

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-12-20 12:50:47 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:

> On 2010-12-19 22:02, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I was thinking about having the tool that creates the bindings 
> generating all the necessary code inline and skip all the templates, 
> just to see if there would be a difference in the speed of the 
> compilation and the size of the generated binaries.

That'd certainly make an interesting comparison.

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