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For those that think it's a dead project, it's not, check the mailing list. The devs are looking to move to GitHub, so hopefully we'll see more contributors. I'm going to get involved myself, I downloaded the source last night into a VM to have a fiddle :)
I messed around with GNUstep on Ubuntu around 2011-ish when I tried to port an OS X service to Linux. (I did not touch Etoile, though, as I didn't need a GUI.) I didn't come away with a good impression at all. It was not very easy to get up and running, the documentation was lacking, requiring digging through many mailing lists, and it didn't support Objective-C 2.0... which was a big pain since the code was in Objec…
How viable nowadays is cross-platform application or server software development in Objective-C compared to the same in C++? GNUstep appears to be the best (only) solution for the former; is that so? Edit: To clarify, I'm asking this as a developer who does most work on Linux. My interest in Obj-C is primarily due to its Smalltalk-like message passing mechanism. Edit 2: clarity.
There's Apportable for Android ( http://www.apportable.com ), which—I'm guessing—likely uses Cocotron under the hood: http://www.cocotron.org But, in general, not very. Objective-C compilers certainly exist for Windows and Linux, but aren't worth much without Apple's frameworks.
How viable nowadays is cross-platform application or server software development in Objective-C compared to the same in C++? GNUstep appears to be the best (only) solution for the former; is that so? Edit: To clarify, I'm asking this as a developer who does most work on Linux. My interest in Obj-C is primarily due to its Smalltalk-like message passing mechanism. Edit 2: clarity.
Simple core foundation applications for the command line are no problem but as soon as you get into GUI land with cocoa the differences start to grow.
IMHO trying out GNUStep is a nice project for a weekend but forget any serious cross platform development ideas.
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There's Apportable for Android ( http://www.apportable.com ), which—I'm guessing—likely uses Cocotron under the hood: http://www.cocotron.org But, in general, not very. Objective-C compilers certainly exist for Windows and Linux, but aren't worth much without Apple's frameworks.
Apportable does use Cocotron, but they also stitch in various other open source libraries that are found in the iOS runtime (libdispatch, CommonCrypto, etc): http://www.apportable.com/open_source
We're going to properly launch a website for it and do an alpha release in a few weeks, but thought I would mention it since this is where most of the development on Étoilé is happening right now.
I messed around with GNUstep on Ubuntu around 2011-ish when I tried to port an OS X service to Linux. (I did not touch Etoile, though, as I didn't need a GUI.) I didn't come away with a good impression at all. It was not very easy to get up and running, the documentation was lacking, requiring digging through many mailing lists, and it didn't support Objective-C 2.0... which was a big pain since the code was in Objec…
The GNUstep Objective-C runtime actually supported ARC before Apple even shipped their implementation: http://etoileos.com/news/archive/2011/07/03/1215/
How viable nowadays is cross-platform application or server software development in Objective-C compared to the same in C++? GNUstep appears to be the best (only) solution for the former; is that so? Edit: To clarify, I'm asking this as a developer who does most work on Linux. My interest in Obj-C is primarily due to its Smalltalk-like message passing mechanism. Edit 2: clarity.
There's Apportable for Android ( http://www.apportable.com ), which—I'm guessing—likely uses Cocotron under the hood: http://www.cocotron.org But, in general, not very. Objective-C compilers certainly exist for Windows and Linux, but aren't worth much without Apple's frameworks.
How viable nowadays is cross-platform application or server software development in Objective-C compared to the same in C++? GNUstep appears to be the best (only) solution for the former; is that so? Edit: To clarify, I'm asking this as a developer who does most work on Linux. My interest in Obj-C is primarily due to its Smalltalk-like message passing mechanism. Edit 2: clarity.