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Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 09:23:11 +0000 |
On 7 Jan 2014, at 08:37, David Chisnall <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2014, at 08:23, Sebastian Reitenbach <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> * better OBJC2 support, some more proper gs-make support
>
> A minor point, but Apple hasn't used the term 'Objective-C 2' for over five
> years. Possibly because they were mocked for describing the version of
> Objective-C that came after Objective-C 4 as Objective-C 2...
>
> The main point that we want to be making today is that we support ARC. We
> might want some bullet-point features, such as:
>
> - ARC
> - Blocks
> - Properties
> - Braindead array and dictionary syntax with poorly thought out semantics
> added to appease Python programmers
>
> Or, more simply, all of the language features that are supported on OS X with
> the latest Apple tools.
Good point ... I hadn't really considered the branding of the language/runtime.
I agree that ARC is the killer feature. The others are, IMO relatively minor
refinements not suitable to be the headline feature, or braindead/bloat in some
way (even though they have possible good applications).
However, I'm not sure that we can use the term ARC as a big selling point,
simply because I'm not sure people will understand how good a feature it is.
How can we brand the latest objc language/runtime so that it both sounds
impressive without being either too technical (arc) or too vague (modern)?
On the other hand, maybe calling it ObjectiveC-ARC is OK if OSX developers all
understand it?
- Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, (continued)
- Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Gregory Casamento, 2014/01/01
- Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf, 2014/01/02
- Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/01/03
- Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Riccardo Mottola, 2014/01/03
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Sebastian Reitenbach, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Sebastian Reitenbach, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal,
Richard Frith-Macdonald <=
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Ivan Vučica, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Ivan Vučica, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Ivan Vučica, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, David Chisnall, 2014/01/07
- Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal, Ivan Vučica, 2014/01/07