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New Cocoa/Perl Bridge Released

Posted by pudge on from the cuckcoo-for-cocoa-camels dept.

bsartist writes "I've released the first version of a Cocoa/Perl bridge that I call CamelBones. It's alpha-quality but functional enough for the example application, a POD reader similar to MacPerl's Shuck, to be written entirely in Perl." There are other projects like this that have been started, though this is the first one I've seen (since the Rhapsody days, anyway) that has code available.

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  1. What about Perl development? by Erasei · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like to see people out there using Perl. I guess it's mainly because it's the language I use almost exclusively. I just bought a new iBook (14.1lcd, 600mhz, combo drive model), and I can say the main selling point for me was the Darwin base. To be able to have a Perl compiler with me wherever I go is _very_ handy.

    Is it just my lack of googling skills, or are there +no+ Perl development tools for OS X? I mean, Apple designed a beautiful and wonderfully easy to use application development suite with ProjectBuilder and InterfaceBuilder that even I can use, and have written a few applescript apps for fun with it.

    Why would Apple not include a Perl framework for ProjectBuilder? They include one for java, and even applescript, but not for Perl.

    Anyone know of any good Perl development suites out there?

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    1. Re:What about Perl development? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Why stop at Perl, could we have frameworks for Python, RealBasic etc...?

      Make ProjectBuilder the best place for all programming

  2. Hell yeah! (and other bridges) by RevAaron · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't the first XXXObjective-C bridge to come out for OS X. There's RubyCocoa, which works pretty well. Squeak has an (more generalized) Objective-C bridge. Lua has one. I believe the PyObjC bridge has released code as well, and works under OS X, although that project seems to be a lot more quiet than the others.

    Good to see this. I emailed the author about it coming out, and had a bad feeling it would never get released. (why? dunno, just a feeling) :)

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  3. BBEdit by TheInternet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A lot of people seem to love BBEdit. Not sure why, that feature list you cite isn't really outstanding for an IDE.

    I really like BBEdit as well. I'm not sure why, but I suspect it's at least partially because it doesn't try to be your operating system. It doesn't bog you down with masses of toolbars, tabs file browsers, etc. This is where HomeSite become unusable for me.

    There's no particular set of features that make BBEdit special. It may be the philoshopy the developers applied to the application more than anything -- it doesn't make any of those stupid really obvious mistakes that drive one insane. But certainly the focused approached to editing is a big lure. It gets out of your way and lets you focus on what you're doing.

    On the other hand, Project Builder is nice.

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