Objective-C

[mogmios]

The documentation mentioned being able to compile as Objective-C at some point. C or Objective-C would be really handy; what is the status of that?

[Charles]

There is an Objective-C back-end, but it is very incomplete. The status is that it is less than half way finished and progress on it is very slow. I just get busy with everything else including some recent testing and hacking on the Continuum IDE for Mac.

You'd probably like an approximate timeline, but I can't really give one. Certainly the Obj-C back-end won't be ready in the next month and probably not in the next two. After that, it's hard to say.

I have become more interested in it than the JVM back-end because as a strict superset of C, Obj-C gives me natural access to things like value types (pass a struct by value) and various sized ints (such as uint64) that are missing in the JVM. Therefore I think the Obj-C back-end will be completed first, at least if I'm the only person working on such things.