I very much doubt that there is anything serious going on with Eiffel
and Cocoa. I did build a very large EiffelCocoa bridge in 2001 the
wrong way (well it was right at the time, let's say the old way). You
can download it from http://www.maceiffel.com. EiffelSoft is also
making some progress with their EiffelStudio, but not really in a
Cocoa bridge (in fact they were doing Carbon a while ago). I also
built garbage collection on top of Objective-C so that the Eiffel
garbage collector managed the Cocoa objects, but this would also
change with Objective-C 2.0 most likely.
I have not had a great deal of interest lately, so have not expended
the resources, but I probably will get it going on Leopard and Xcode 3
sometime.
The way to do EiffelCocoa now would be using the new Python and Ruby
bridge technology. I think Eiffel would still be a good addition to
the OS X programming arsenal, filling in the void between low-level C
programming (although Objective-C is the nicest flavour of C I have
ever seen, but not really cross platform) and high-level (say Ruby)
programming. Eiffel is better for developing cross-platform
applications, but is compiled and generates C-standard optimized code,
while in many ways being like Ruby, but is compile-time and type
checked (in a non-patronizing "how can I get in your way" manner).
HTH and I hope I am not too sketchy and obscure. (Whereabouts in
Australia are you?)
Ian Joyner
email@hidden
On 20/01/2008, at 3:34 PM, Lachlan Cotter wrote:
Hi,
The Eiffel language seems to offer some powerful features: multiple
inheritance, design by contract etc. and Cocoa bindings are
available. Unfortunately, the Mac resources for Eiffel seem pretty
sketchy and obscure.
I just wanted to find out if anyone using Eiffel to do serious Cocoa
development, or know of any community or resources for Cocoa-Eiffel
development?
