On Nov 12, 2008, at 7:48 AM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
Interesting project!
I'm curious about two things, though:
1. Why Apple chose to implement it in C++
It had to be written in something. Some people like C++, the fact
that I do not number myself in this camp notwithstanding, and it is an
Apple support development language, so... In all fairness, it should
also be pointed out that the ObjectiveC runtime costs (messaging and
so on) are generally not a problem in 99.9% of all cases, except for
that critical 0.1% case where you're manipulating things at a very low
level and need to control your execution environment very carefully.
I suspect that autozone is one such project.
2. Why they released it under the Apache license, instead of APSL
To encourage wider adoption. When Apple releases something of their
own under the BSD or Apache licenses, that is generally the rationale
behind it.
- Jordan
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