It looks like it will never graduate to be a stand-alone language. Even though, it looks like it could be less terrible than Objective C for some design patterns.
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[+] [-] albertzeyer|13 years ago|reply
The readme there gives also a better introduction to the goals and design decisions of the language.
Basic design:
* Lisp-like.
* Native calls are directly possible from within the language, so you can easily call C code.
* Uses the ObjC runtime.
Example of a Cocoa application: https://github.com/timburks/nu/blob/master/examples/RandomAp...
[+] [-] beatgammit|13 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] peripetylabs|13 years ago|reply
http://www.radtastical.com/stories/nu
[+] [-] timburks|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] MaxGabriel|13 years ago|reply
[+] [-] albertzeyer|13 years ago|reply
The last update was September 2, 2011 with the release of Nu 2.0.1.
On GitHub, the last commit was 14 days ago.
[+] [-] bleakgadfly|13 years ago|reply
Great stuff.