Objective-D released!

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 13:44:12 UTC, Luna wrote:
> Objective-D is a new package, now available on dub which 
> implements bindings to the Objective-C runtime as well as the 
> Foundation core library. The goal is to provide a shared base 
> that Objective-C bindings can utilize instead of packages 
> repeatedly re-implementing NSObject, NSString, and the like. 
> Additionally the clang block implementation by Jacob Carlborg, 
> and my own implementation of auto release pools is provided. 
> Which should allow for safer interop with Objective-C!
>
> https://code.dlang.org/packages/objective-d
>
> Additionally, I've been working on a pull-request to add 
> Objective-C support to the LDC compiler, including support for 
> binding Swift stub classes via a `@swift` UDA.
>
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/4777
>
> This should over-all increase the usability of DLang on 
> Apple-made systems.

As a Mac user, this is tremendous news! I must admit, I haven't 
looked at what this can do for my code, as I typically don't go 
to any of these libs, I generally stick with posix functions or 
phobos. But if nothing else, making ldc on par with dmd for Mac 
and iOS code will enable so much more for ARM Macs!

-Steve