<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I want to make sure it's clear that this is (a) a big project, more than just turning on a bunch of flags, and (b) not likely to be something we'd accept into upstream. Improving the notion of "foreign classes", maybe; specifically supporting an ObjC runtime natively on Linux, probably not.</div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Depending on what the end-goal is it might be easier to port the Apple runtime to Linux. I had a crack at this a few years ago, I gave up because of the lack of shared library load notifications but doing something that doesn’t support dynamic loading shouldn’t be too hard. The Apportable port might be a good starting point.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>— Luke</div></body></html>