Quick question about target patforms . . .

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Oct 25 09:56:41 PDT 2010


Michel Fortin wrote:
> 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/>


I think this is a worthy and valuable project, analogous to D's support for COM 
objects on Windows. Once you get it done, I'd like to get it folded into the 
main dmd. We'll also need a documentation page!

Thanks for doing this.


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