Re: Interesting piece from PC Week

[Benedikt Stefansson]

Hi Brad,

It is probably a good idea to learn some Java at some point, but it won't be
supplanting Objective-C in Swarm for the foreseable future. The Java code in
the new GUI will be hidden from the user, and you'll still communicate with it
through Objective-C calls.

Chris and Glen have mentioned that they might launch a project (resources
permitting) to make it possible to write agents in Java and link them into
Swarm. So it would be a hybrid between ObjC and Java, where the user could
choose his favorite language. I think this is pretty difficult to do, i.e.
they would need some special funding for programmers for this task. I think
the DoD might be interested though.

So bottom line, Java good but Swarm is still going to be Objective-C based at
least for another 2-3 years.

Regards,
-Benedikt

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