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[Damian <damian.pop@xxxxxxxxx>]

About this:

*Of course C code can be compiled and used on the iPhone. It's just
forbidden by Apple for apps.. so it depends on what you want to do. If you
intend to program an app that you want to sell then just go for Objective-C.
As sad as it is :(*


It's not forbidden. Apple removed that senseless restriction a few weeks
ago. See here<http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9184339/Apple_blinks_on_dev_tool_restrictions>and
here <http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/09/09statement.html>.
I'll be trying to make a very-very-simple eclipse plugin. I'll share the
code if the effort leads somewhere. I'll take a look at yours, it will
surely help.

Damian

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM, <ndd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Yes there's docs :) I asked Mark to make it more accessible/visible from
> the main website but apparently it hasn't been done yet. Hopefully he reads
> the mailing list too.
>
> The iPhone question is really more political than technical. Of course C
> code can be compiled and used on the iPhone. It's just forbidden by Apple
> for apps.. so it depends on what you want to do. If you intend to program an
> app that you want to sell then just go for Objective-C. As sad as it is :(
>
> The question about XCode leads us to the interesting lack of an ooc ide..
> not that it would be hard to do. The ooc community just seems to have been
> busy/lazy/comfortable with vim/emacs enough not to take the time to do it.
> There's been my ooclipse effort a long time ago, as discussed in the other
> thread, but it's hardly what I would call IDE support.
>
> As for "is the language mature enough" I think we can answer yes now. The
> tools are still developing, there are exciting ideas for rock, the compiler,
> but it's internal improvement (to make it faster, improve error reporting,
> libs building, etc etc.) but the language itself works well enough and has
> more or less settled.
>
> There are still issues and feature requests, of course. But we're getting
> there :) And if you want to be a part of it you're more than welcome. The
> more fresh blood we'll have, the faster we'll be able to make progress.
>
> ndd
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:43:09 -0300, Damian <damian.pop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, I've just found the language yersterday and I haven't even managed to
> build a hello world, but there are a couple of questions I have:
> Would it be possible to code in ooc for iphone?
> Can i use c libraries from ooc?
> And, would it be possible to use xcode for coding/debugging?
> I can't even imagine how debugging ooc code would be... is it possible I
> would need to debug the generated c code?
>  Thanks a lot!
> Oh, one more question, is the language mature enough for serious
> development? From what I have read, the language looks very promising, but I
> don't know about the development/progress status.
>  Damian.
>
>