Does anyone use Objective C for anything but the iphone?

sil3ntmac · on Dec 18, 2008

Yes. It is used in Mac development all the time.

petercooper · on Dec 18, 2008

OpenStep and GNUStep developers.

juliend2 · on Dec 18, 2008

And also http://etoileos.com/ which is based on GNUstep. Very interesting project.

bd · on Dec 18, 2008

A long time I ago I used to make multi-agent artificial life simulations in a system called Swarm, which was in Objective C:

http://www.swarm.org/wiki/Main_Page

I don't remember much, just that it was a nice language, well fitting for the problem domain. It seems meanwhile they also added Java and C++ support.

metachor · on Dec 18, 2008

I too used to program in the Swarm platform with Objective-C.

Off-topic, but if you are interested in frameworks like this, also check out the MASON Multiagent Simulation Toolkit (which is based in Java):

http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/mason/

potatolicious · on Dec 18, 2008

I do, I've been doing Mac dev for a while though, so it's just us Mac people...