About the Author

David Chisnall is a freelance writer and consultant. While studying for his PhD, he cofounded the Étoilé project, which aims to produce an open-source desktop environment on top of GNUstep, an open-source implementation of the OpenStep and Cocoa APIs. He is an active contributor to GNUstep and is the original author and maintainer of the GNUstep Objective-C 2 runtime library and the associated compiler support in the Clang compiler. He is also a FreeBSD committer working various aspects of the toolchain, including being responsible for the new C++ stack.

After completing his PhD, David hid in academia for a while, studying the history of programming languages. He finally escaped when he realized that there were places off campus ...

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