No chicken is safe!

It has been decided that we are going to use Objective C for all the core code in the project. The reason is that we get a tried and tested object model, stay relatively programming language neutral and get a lot of framework code for free. For now, much of this framework code is borrowed from the GNU Step project.

eecch. obj-c is horrendous. sounds like anubis is sucking down the apple-loving-juice too much.

the open source world isn't exactly flooded with talented obj-c programmers so I think this will backfire a bit...

milestone 1 makes for an interesting read...

who knows, maybe they will pull it off.

 :popcorn:

yakumo9275 wrote:
eecch. obj-c is horrendous. sounds like anubis is sucking down the apple-loving-juice too much.

You obviously never programmed in/with Objective-C.

Clue: Objective-C wasn't created by Apple, so there's no sucking apple-loving-juice. The genius we should thank for it is Brad J. Cox (http://www.virtualschool.edu/cox/) and the SmallTalk and predecessors crowd. It's just the folks at NeXT were smarter than most and chose the best object oriented language with realistic performance. Then when they were bought by Apple, they carried that over.

yakumo9275 wrote:
the open source world isn't exactly flooded with talented obj-c programmers so I think this will backfire a bit...

Yeah, right. Please come out of whatever rock you live in. If you haven't noticed Apple's ascent and the proliferation of iPhone applications, then there's not much point discussing things, but just in case: there are tens of thousands of iPhone developers, and most are doing Obj-C stuff. And of course there are more and more Mac OS X developers each day. And in fact, most of them, at least to me, seem very talented.

Oh, and what really matters in the case of a bunch of coders (AROS guys!) trying to work on a new OS:

* Almost all programmers that touch Obj-C fall in love with it, partly because of its clean and elegant approach to object oriented programming and partly because of the great frameworks that allow you to do things easily without reinventing the wheel.

* It's super-easy to pick up because it's just a superset of C/C++ and you can freely mix C++ code with it, which is great for those coming from Java/C++ worlds.


Having said that, I hope to one day be able to port the GNU Obj-C environment to AmigaOS. So yeah, I've used it before speaking.

Congratulations!! Hope it will benefit everything that is Amiga. Best of luck. :-)

ferrellsl wrote:
Anubis won't go anywhere.  It's merely a re-implementation of an old idea called Amithlon.....They'd be better off supporting kernel and driver updates for Amithlon instead of trying to reinvent the Amithlon "wheel".

I ofter ask myself why people should talk even if they don't know anything about the subject they're talkin' about...

Anubis is similar to Amithlon as like as I am similar to Eva Herzigova.

The website looks horrible here. I take it, its an IE problem, since it looks like the look is caused by faulty css rendering.

Actually it's temporary site and the new will be based on Typo3.

One question that keeps popping up here, is, how amiga compatible is anubis? Does it even relate to amiga?

For the end user, they probably won't tell too much difference between Anubis-OS and AOS.  EUAE will be integrated for those who want it.  So it's up to the coders which they want to develope in. Anubis-OS is designed from the start to be concerned about the end user experience.

Dammy