D/Objective-C: hit a dead end, start anew

[Michel Fortin]

<http://michelf.com/weblog/2010/dobjc-dead-end-start-anew/>

The D/Objective-C bridge is a project that was aiming at making Cocoa 
usable from D.

It's somewhat similar to QtD. The timing of this announcement isn't 
entirely coincidental with today's announcement about QtD: my 
announcement was ready, QtD's was the trigger for my Publish button. 
Even though the problems are probably quite different between the two 
projects, they both share a common need for runtime-reflection, playing 
with the object model from another language, static initialization from 
within mixins that shouldn't create circular module dependency, and 
probably a couple others.

It is my feeling that for dealing with Objective-C, things will be much 
cleaner by working directly inside of the compiler. D templates are 
fabulous, and I'm quite amazed that I could do what I did, but the 
bridge creates just too much generated code to make the whole thing 
usable. So I think it's time for a new approach.

-- 
Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://michelf.com/