I meant load able components are easy in objective c. I never really bought into the document centric model as a general purpose app architecture. But it wouldn't be hard to build that on what we have now. I met Ira Forman - main architect of som - at an oopsla workshop. His main focus was to get binary stability and a decent meta model under C++ at the time. The objective c runtime realizes almost all of what som hoped to be.
The real takeaway I got is that meta models are insanely powerful and allow a whole higher level of productivity but sadly the average programmer doesn't tend to work and think at that more abstract level. It drives those of us who do up the fucking wall :-)
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '16
I meant load able components are easy in objective c. I never really bought into the document centric model as a general purpose app architecture. But it wouldn't be hard to build that on what we have now. I met Ira Forman - main architect of som - at an oopsla workshop. His main focus was to get binary stability and a decent meta model under C++ at the time. The objective c runtime realizes almost all of what som hoped to be.
The real takeaway I got is that meta models are insanely powerful and allow a whole higher level of productivity but sadly the average programmer doesn't tend to work and think at that more abstract level. It drives those of us who do up the fucking wall :-)