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barracuda156

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This is a practical question: I am interested to know if some languages are being used but not available via MacPorts, or just broken, but there are potential users of those (i.e. it makes sense to try fixing those).

P. S. No requests to fix clang, rust and go are currently accepted LOL
 
Wouldn't Objective-C still be the language for PowerPC based Macs? I guess C/C++ would also be a good choice, especially if someone wants to use the Carbon API, and I remember OS X used to have support for Java baked into Xcode a very long time ago, but I think Objective-C would be the simplest choice.

(also, some part of me still enjoys Objective-C more than Swift)
 
Wouldn't Objective-C still be the language for PowerPC based Macs? I guess C/C++ would also be a good choice, especially if someone wants to use the Carbon API, and I remember OS X used to have support for Java baked into Xcode a very long time ago, but I think Objective-C would be the simplest choice.

(also, some part of me still enjoys Objective-C more than Swift)
It still supports Java.
 
The problem isn't the language, it's finding some older tool that will compile for Power PC. Also I'm not sure about Cocoa.
 
and I remember OS X used to have support for Java baked into Xcode a very long time ago

For the record, at the moment only headless JDK builds for powerpc. X11 backend needs to be fixed (broken for macOS generally, not just for powerpc).
 
The problem isn't the language, it's finding some older tool that will compile for Power PC. Also I'm not sure about Cocoa.

Cocoa is generally a pain. Clangisms are not supported in gcc, so syntax has to be amended. Avoiding Cocoa is usually a better choice: GTK works, wxGTK works, Qt4 works.
 
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