What are alternatives to Objective-C for Mac progr

Question

I've become very comfortable in the world of pointer-free, garbage-collected programming languages. Now I have to write a small Mac component. I've been learning Objective-C, but as I confront the possibility of dangling pointers and the need to manage retain counts, I feel disheartened.

I know that Objective-C now has garbage collection but this only works with Leopard. My component must work with Tiger, too.

I need to access some Cocoa libraries not available to Java, so that rules out my usual weapon of choice.

What are my alternatives? Especially with no explicit pointers and automatic garbage collection.

Answer 1

Try any of the Cocoa bridges listed in here http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?CocoaBridges

You can also try F-Script - a smalltalk dialect that is written specifically for MacOSX/Cocoa.