• Luna (15/15) Nov 29 Objective-D is a new package, now available on dub which
• Guillaume Piolat (5/7) Nov 29 Thanks, this will be useful because to integrate Metal and do
• WebFreak001 (4/13) Nov 29 this is great! Libraries like this are enablers for many people
• Steven Schveighoffer (7/22) Nov 29 As a Mac user, this is tremendous news! I must admit, I haven't

Luna <luna foxgirls.gay> writes:

Objective-D is a new package, now available on dub which 
implements bindings to the Objective-C runtime as well as the 
Foundation core library. The goal is to provide a shared base 
that Objective-C bindings can utilize instead of packages 
repeatedly re-implementing NSObject, NSString, and the like. 
Additionally the clang block implementation by Jacob Carlborg, 
and my own implementation of auto release pools is provided. 
Which should allow for safer interop with Objective-C!

https://code.dlang.org/packages/objective-d

Additionally, I've been working on a pull-request to add 
Objective-C support to the LDC compiler, including support for 
binding Swift stub classes via a ` swift` UDA.

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/4777

This should over-all increase the usability of DLang on 
Apple-made systems.

Guillaume Piolat <firstname.name spam.com> writes:

On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 13:44:12 UTC, Luna wrote:
 This should over-all increase the usability of DLang on 
 Apple-made systems.

Thanks, this will be useful because to integrate Metal and do 
AUv3 (or even use anything iOS) there is lot of inheriting from 
Obj-C objects. Until that, it would requires gymnastics with the 
Obj-C runtime.

WebFreak001 <d.forum webfreak.org> writes:

On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 13:44:12 UTC, Luna wrote:
 Objective-D is a new package, now available on dub which 
 implements bindings to the Objective-C runtime as well as the 
 Foundation core library. The goal is to provide a shared base 
 that Objective-C bindings can utilize instead of packages 
 repeatedly re-implementing NSObject, NSString, and the like. 
 Additionally the clang block implementation by Jacob Carlborg, 
 and my own implementation of auto release pools is provided. 
 Which should allow for safer interop with Objective-C!

 [...]

this is great! Libraries like this are enablers for many people 
that would have most likely otherwise chosen another language or 
tool for the job.

Steven Schveighoffer <schveiguy gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 13:44:12 UTC, Luna wrote:
 Objective-D is a new package, now available on dub which 
 implements bindings to the Objective-C runtime as well as the 
 Foundation core library. The goal is to provide a shared base 
 that Objective-C bindings can utilize instead of packages 
 repeatedly re-implementing NSObject, NSString, and the like. 
 Additionally the clang block implementation by Jacob Carlborg, 
 and my own implementation of auto release pools is provided. 
 Which should allow for safer interop with Objective-C!

 https://code.dlang.org/packages/objective-d

 Additionally, I've been working on a pull-request to add 
 Objective-C support to the LDC compiler, including support for 
 binding Swift stub classes via a ` swift` UDA.

 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/4777

 This should over-all increase the usability of DLang on 
 Apple-made systems.

As a Mac user, this is tremendous news! I must admit, I haven't 
looked at what this can do for my code, as I typically don't go 
to any of these libs, I generally stick with posix functions or 
phobos. But if nothing else, making ldc on par with dmd for Mac 
and iOS code will enable so much more for ARM Macs!

-Steve