Python/pyobjC Apps on iPhone now a possibility?

[Stef Mientki]

J Kenneth King wrote:
> Stef Mientki <stef.mientki at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>>>> So, the question is, can the same thing be done for Python apps?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I love Python and all, but it'd be apt to ask, what's the point?
>>>
>>> The iPhone is running on what? A 400Mhz ARM processor? Resources on the
>>> device are already limited; running your program on top of an embedded
>>> Python interpreter would only be adding pressure to the constraints;
>>> even if it was an optimized interpreter.
>>>   
>>>       
>> I don't know iPhone,
>> but I've done some experiments with 400 MHz arm, running Windows Mobile,
>> and found PocketPyGUI running very very well on these devices.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Stef Mientki
>>     
>
> Sure, but it's pretty relative in the sense that it might be fast enough
> if I'm sitting around but too slow if I want to enter some information
> in the app before the next train comes.
>
> As a programmer, I don't really see the benefit of using an embedded
> interpreter on the iPhone.  Objective-C isn't the greatest language, but
> it's easy to learn and well supported.  It also compiles into some
> pretty speedy executables.
>
> If you can sacrifice a little run-time speed for your users in exchange
> for ease of development on your part, all the more to you.
>
> My original point was that I don't see the benefit in that decision.
>
>
>   
ok 20 years ago I might have agreed with you,
but now a days,
speed of development is a much more important decision maker than speed 
of execution ;-)

cheers,
Stef