With Ruby now at about 20% of the Objective-C popularity ratings (whatever those mean), maybe there is room to extend the Objective-C stack to the web? Especially as we are experiencing a shift in technologies from MVC frameworks to REST backends.
After all, we had this in the past, with core object models bridged to the UI with AppKit, to legacy databases with EOF and to the web with WebObjects. Now we could do mobile, desktop and server with a common, well-tested object model. Some say crafting object models this way is a Good Idea™. Thoughts?
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A web framework sounds like fun. But the reason I'm learning Objective-C is to learn about the Squeak VM. The SqueakPureObjc.xcodeproj code I've been exploring referred to a MetaObject created bitmap conversion file used by JMM. I want to update your SqueakCocoa vm to contemporary Objective-C. Our vm.s have become too complicated and we need a learner vm. Yours is perfect.
Chris Cunnington
The Squeak Board
Thank you!
I always felt that VMs could be done much simpler in Objective-C. For example, you could implement primitives (and plugins) as simply messages sent to the VM...
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