Quick question about target patforms . . .

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-10-25 15:13, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2010-10-25 07:55:12 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> said:
>
>> On 2010-10-25 09:27, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>>> . . . but they may have been asked before and I just missed them in
>>>> trawling around.
>>>>
>>>> Is the intention that D should be the language of choice for
>>>> implementing applications on MeeGo? If not maybe it should?
>>>>
>>>> I guess the same question goes for iOS -- although Object-C and C++ are
>>>> the assumed languages of development, nothing in the various Apple "app
>>>> stores" rules would discriminate against D -- unlike what they do
>>>> regarding Python, Flash and Java!
>>>
>>> Yes - we just need an ARM version of the compiler!
>>
>> For that we have ldc and gdc. He would also need an Objective-C/D
>> bridge and bindings to the Cocoa Touch framework. Here are two
>> Objective-C/D bridges:
>>
>> * http://dsource.org/projects/dstep - More bindings, less complete
>> bridge, tool to generate bindings
>>
>> * http://michelf.com/projects/d-objc-bridge - More complete bridge,
>> not as many bindings
>>
>> None of these bridges have Cocoa Touch bindings.
>
> Personally, I've found that, even though it works, the bridging approach
> doesn't scale very well because of the insane amount of generated glue
> code. That's why I changed course and abandoned my bridge (the second in
> your list), working instead on making DMD directly aware of the
> Objective-C object model. This way, you can have extern(Objective-C)
> classes and use them as if they were D classes (mostly), no wrapper
> class and no glue code necessary.
> <http://michelf.com/weblog/2010/dobjc-dead-end-start-anew/>

Oh, I didn't know you had come that far, let met know if you need any 
help. I've started building a tool to create bindings using Clang, it's 
actually quite easy to use the Clang libraries and the result are a lot 
better then my previous tool.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg