Re: [gentoo-osx] The road ahead?

[m h <sesquile@gmail.com>]

There are some efforts underway (pypy) to improve the performance of
python (which may or may not pan out).  Sorry, I didn't intend to say
that you should only program in python (even though I prefer to when
able).  I'm quite aware that many people find python annoying.  Just
thought that it might make sense in this case since portage is written
in python, it should be pretty easy to get a frontend cleanly
integrated using it.

I'm not an objc nor cocoa person so I can't really comment on that
front (read portions of the oreilly cocoa book and wasn't motivated to
continue ;( ).  Also as the only Mac I have access to is one at work,
I don't know that I'll be writing any frontend for osx.  My interest
here is in the generalized PREFIX install.

On 11/1/05, Grobian <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> In general, I'm not impressed by the performance of Python.  I'm not
> impressed by the language itself either, but that's just taste.  If
> you'd create such program, I'd be happy with it too ;)
>
>
> m h wrote:
> > What would make a objective c program any faster than python in this
> > case?  It doesn't seem like it would be cpu bound.
> > If you use pyobjc you get a "native" gui (and you can use py2app to
> > create a "native" application), you just get to program parts of it in
> > a nicer language.
> >
> > On 11/1/05, Grobian <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Well, I envisioned a some sort of 'fast' application which doesn't
> >> needlessly eat gigabytes of memory and also looks like a native Mac
> >> application.
> >>
> >> m h wrote:
> >>> There's also pyobjc which allows integration of python and cocoa....
> >>
> >> --
> >> Fabian Groffen
> >> Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead
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> >>
> >>
> >
>
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> Fabian Groffen
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