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Re: Getting started / about iphone development
I made the docs accessible at least a week ago...
http://ooc-lang.org/
There is a Resources link AND another link to it from central divs. You cant
miss it.
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Damian <damian.pop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
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