Sony SNAP - Objective-C and GNUStep come to SCE

[KnightWRX]

http://snap.sonydeveloper.com/pages/about/

It seems Sony will use GNUStep as the framework/API for the consumer electronic devices for their SNAP platform, and thus will adopt Objective-C as the language to write applications for their platform.

GNUStep started as an open source implementation of the OpenStep specification, but it is now aiming at being a Cocoa implementation.

 

[Queso]

Hopefully amongst other things it will speed up the networking performance on the PS3, which seems to have a few bottlenecks.

 

[KnightWRX]

Hopefully amongst other things it will speed up the networking performance on the PS3, which seems to have a few bottlenecks.

What does the framework and language have to do with low level system services ? And I've not had any issues with the network performance on my PS3.

 

[Queso]

I've not had any issues with the network performance on my PS3.

The low speed of most people's Internet connections masks the problem. We have a number of PS3's on a corporate network and get roughly 1/5th of the networking speed that other devices obtain through our 100Mbps pipe. Don't know what causes it, but the effect is definitely there.

 

[*LTD*]

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Looks like Sony dropped the entire venture.

Smart move.