On 13 Sep 2010, at 13:53, Vincent Richomme wrote:
GNU ObjC has so few users that it seems hardly worth the effort
In the same time do you have an idea of how many people are
interested
in gnustep ?
I would be very curious to know it.
DO you some some fugures ?
I've absolutely no idea. I suspect that OS X and the iPhone have
increased interest a bit, and will a bit more once we have a UIKit
implementation, but I don't have any real figures. The only data
point I have is that all of the talks I gave at FOSDEM this year had
people standing up in the audience because there weren't enough
chairs in our devroom for everyone.
I'm not condemning GCC for its stance. C and C++ are definitely
much more popular languages than Objective-C, and I wouldn't blame
them if they decided to completely drop Objective-C support. No
one's really worked on it for around 7 years and the code that they
inherited from NeXT is basically unmaintainable. I just get fed up
with people saying 'we have to make an effort to support GCC because
we are also a GNU project' when people on the GCC side say that
supporting us is too much effort.