Re: [ML] Hosting of gnustep.org

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi Lars,

> Am 21.01.2021 um 23:54 schrieb lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de:
> 
> Hi Nikolaus,
> 
>> Am 21.01.2021 um 21:54 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 21.01.2021 um 19:49 schrieb Ivan Vučica <ivan@vucica.net>:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:23 PM H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Well, my dream is to write WebApps in Obj-C using OpenSTEP classes.
>>>> I.e. button = [[NSButton alloc] initWithTitle:@"press here"]; and have
>>>> the GUI class NSButton emit the necessary HTML+CSS+JS to present it to
>>>> the user so that he can press the button in his browser. So use the MVC
>>>> model in the App completely hiding that the user-interaction goes through
>>>> https (on a very abstract level there is no big difference between http
>>>> and X11 protocols connecting a server over the network with a display
>>>> and a keyboard).
>>>> 
>>>> This could be achieved by a compiler from Obj-C to PHP or directly to
>>>> PHP byte-code...
>>> 
>>> No translation into PHP needed. Simply implement an API in whatever
>>> language pleases you,
>> 
>> What about Objective-C?
> 
> If you want to use ObjC for Webapps why not using one of the oldest (since 
> 1996) long time ago invented WebObjects or, if you want to have it the GNU 
> way, GNUstepWeb? It has been there for a long time right at your fingertips.

Well, I was incomplete because it was only a statement about language:

I want to write all my apps in OpenSTEP classes and frameworks + Obj-C.

The benefit is that you need to write App logic only once. For Server+Browser, 
for Desktop, for Mobile.
Why have 10, if one toolbox and set of building blocks suffices?

At the moment with mySTEP.php I only have OpenSTEP classes and frameworks + PHP.
Hence the wish for automatic Obj-C -> PHP translation to make PHP an internal 
intermediate language and implementation detail.

GNUstepWeb would give me other classes and paradigm + Obj-C and Server+Browser 
only.
Cappucino would give me other classes and paradigm + Obj-J and Server+Browser 
only.
Other approaches would give me other classes and paradigm + other language and 
Server+Browser only.

But all this doesn't help Greg to host gnustep.org.

BR,
Nikolaus