I'm finally back in the UK, after talking about OPL at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The talk went really well, around 70 people turned up to listen and see what OPL could do. And I expect most people at the conference got personal demos of OPL from myself (and some free OPL applications on the MMC Cards I was giving away).
There's a lot of people out there interested in OPL, and programming their smartphones. There's also some corporate interest, some from Nokia, and some from other large organisations that I need to follow up. Hopefully we'll see some new programs from people in the near future.
In summary, OPL continues onwards, gaining mindshare, momentum and new runtimes so OPL can appear on more devices.
Some people have been watching news from Etech and asked "what are we going to do now Nokia are releasing Python for Series 60?" The obvious answer is nothing. Firstly OPL isn't all about Series 60 (more on that next week), and the languages are geared to doing different things. After talking to Nokia, there should be no reason why OPL cannot call Python scripts (and vice versa).
Secondly, the more languages a platform has, the more developers there are. The more developers there are, the more applications. The more applications, the better the community for the device.
Posted by Ewan at February 16, 2024 08:45 PM