Re: Parallel Question and Swarm Future

[Philip Rhoades]

My two-cents worth . .

> The question is then, do we continue to build on an unstable foundation,
> or do we build for the future.  In addition, for all the good reasons
> Swarm was built in Objective C, it is still serious baggage because of
> the lack of development tools and compiler support available.  Prior to
> Swarm, I was using Centerline’s C/C++ compiler and debugger.  I still
> get tears in my eyes when I think about having had to give it up.  Is it
> too much to think about a translation to C++?  What are the consequences
> of keeping ObjC?  This is not a idle question from my standpoint, as I
> have been hired to build spatial models of the intertidal zone for Cal
> State LA and I have to make decisions on the machines we are going to
> purchase and the language I will write in.  People become concerned when
> you write in a language that is little used.  Code upgradability and
> maintainability become important in long term projects and very few
> people are fluent on ObjC.

I too, have a biology project in mind but also would have preferred to have
had Swarm in C++ - is the porting really that drastic or limiting?

Regards,

Phil.

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