Re: Phoenix language

[Gregory Casamento]

Dr. Schaller,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
<hns@computer.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 22.10.2014 um 21:11 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casamento@gmail.com>:
>
>> Dr. Schaller,
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
>> <hns@computer.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 22.10.2014 um 18:07 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
>>>
>>> My understanding is that Phoenix is an implementation of Swift and not
>>> Objective-C.
>>>
>>>
>>> I see.
>>>
>>> Shouldn’t they have much code in common (except a different grammar)?
>>
>>
>> If you believe that I can reuse anything from it, it would be nice.
>
> Well, I don’t know what you want to do and achieve and if I remember
> correctly there was no deep discussion so far about GNUstep doing
> anything with/for the Swift language (although it is quite forcing).

There was, in fact, some discussion on these lines.  There were
postings to the list about swift when the language was first
announced.   The decision at that time was to write one if Apple
didn't open theirs.   That is what I'm doing.

> Therefore it is difficult to recommend something for reuse.
>
>>
>>> As you can see in the commit log, Gregory is involved with Phoenix.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, nice to know.
>>>
>>> How is that related to the GNUstep work? Does it help GNUstep or does it
>>> distract Greg
>>> from working for GNUstep?
>>
>> Nope. :)  GNUstep is the main reason I'm doing this.  GNUstep is
>> always my first love and concern.
>
> I appreciate to hear that. It did look for me so far as a completely new
> and different project that has nothing in common (except you working
> for both). But I know from my projects that the outside view might not
> reveal the connections.

Swift, as I see it, is important for our future.  Also, I wasn't sure
if it was a good idea to put it into GNUstep's repo.  I may still put
a version of it there if needed.

>
> BR,
> Nikolaus
>
>
>>
>>> BR,
>>> Nikolaus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@computer.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> does anyone know more about this project
>>>>
>>>>        https://source.ind.ie/project/phoenix/tree/master
>>>>
>>>> and how it relates to
>>>>
>>>>        https://github.com/goldelico/mySTEP/tree/master/ObjC
>>>>
>>>> BR,
>>>> Nikolaus
>>>>
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