On 03/06/2010 03:54 PM, Gilad Bracha wrote:

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You_can_ write an Objective-C binding using CObject (as in, it's been done). The painful part is converting NSArray<-> Array and NSString<-> String.

However, nice-looking bindings will always have a part written in C that will be VM-dependent, which is why I put this project last. It is much less useful than it looks.

Inteoperating smoothly with the rest of the world is very useful.

I fully agree. But there's so much more involved in interoperating smoothly with the rest of the world than Aliens/CObjects, and what's left is very hard to do in a cross-dialect way. So, having cross-dialect Aliens/CObjects is a nice step, but unfortunately it is still far from being a full solution. Paolo