Sherm Pendley wrote:
I think Apple is interested in making Cocoa in general more
competitive, not just Objective-C. In fact, I suspect that their
recent
increased interest in supporting scripting bridges for Cocoa may be
at least
partly motivated by a need to compete with .NET's multi-language CLR.
Absolutely, and don't forget Apple's longstanding and ongoing lack of
a credible mid-level language to compete with Visual Basic. Love it or
hate it, a good chunk of the software development world rotates around
VB. Bringing the Unixy scripting languages on-board would go a good
way towards filling in that gap, and without the need to create whole
new user-bases and community resources completely from scratch.
Also worth noting for those that aren't already aware of it that
Laurent Sansonetti, the Apple engineer behind Leopard's Ruby support,
has been working on a version of Ruby that runs directly on top of the
ObjC runtime, obviating the need for bridging altogether:
http://ruby.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/MacRuby
has
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Control AppleScriptable applications from Python, Ruby and ObjC:
http://appscript.sourceforge.net
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