[Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 03/06/2010 03:54 PM, Gilad Bracha wrote:
> > > You_can_  write an Objective-C binding using CObject (as in, it's
> > > been done).  The painful part is converting NSArray<->  Array and
> > > NSString<->  String.
> > >
> > > However, nice-looking bindings will always have a part written in
> > > C that will be VM-dependent, which is why I put this project
> > > last.  It is much less useful than it looks.
>
> Inteoperating smoothly with the rest of the world is very useful.

I fully agree.  But there's so much more involved in interoperating 
smoothly with the rest of the world than Aliens/CObjects, and what's 
left is very hard to do in a cross-dialect way.

So, having cross-dialect Aliens/CObjects is a nice step, but 
unfortunately it is still far from being a full solution.

Paolo