aaron evans

The mac-nerd world is eagerly awaiting the WWDC keynote on August 7th. Everybody’s got predictions and some are sure things:

• Intel towers
• Leopard

others are a little more uncertain:

• new Finder
• Intel Xserves
• iTunes Movie Store and/or new iPods

Most of the rumors relate to the shiny things that users want but not the things developers want.

Let me try to put the ‘D’ in ‘WWDC Rumors’: I say that the next version of Mac OS X will introduce a new programming language that will be a lot like Objective-C except that: it will have no pointers, it will have garbage collection, and it will allow for ‘native’ blocks that allow you to use less safe code. It may even be interpretted. Something like (or equal to) Python would be sweet. To implement this, I think that Apple will introduce a new language-agnostic interface definition language in Xcode and allow templates in a particular language to be generated from the interfaces. Sweet.

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