Holy cow! Looks like you can now build 100% native Cocoa applications for OS X 10.2 written entirely in Python.
What does that mean? Well, it might mean that someone like me, who's not a "real" programmer, but is quite comfortable in scripting languages like Perl, PHP, (and given a weeekend to get up to speed) Python, could write a "real" program that runs right on your desktop (and not in your browser.) Traditional Cocoa applications, on the other hand, are usually written in Objective C. That's a "real" language. Definitely more than a weekend for me to learn enough about that to do anything. And possibly out of my range all together.
This is the dream, it seems, that many people have for OS X. Including myself. Make the insides accessible to mere mortals. Let us build stuff with our machines, not just consume what's coming down the wire. And make the building process easy. Python looks like the way to go. If I'm understanding this correctly I'm very excited.
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What does that mean? Well, it might mean that someone like me, who's not a "real" programmer, but is quite comfortable in scripting languages like Perl, PHP, (and given a weeekend to get up to speed) Python, could write a "real" program that runs right on your desktop (and not in your browser.) Traditional Cocoa applications, on the other hand, are usually written in Objective C. That's a "real" language. Definitely more than a weekend for me to learn enough about that to do anything. And possibly out of my range all together.
This is the dream, it seems, that many people have for OS X. Including myself. Make the insides accessible to mere mortals. Let us build stuff with our machines, not just consume what's coming down the wire. And make the building process easy. Python looks like the way to go. If I'm understanding this correctly I'm very excited.
- jim 10-12-2002 7:50 pm