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It should/will obviously also work on iOS, and using an Objective-C web-framework, your iOS device actually performs comparably to Ruby running on big iron. Imagine a server rack filled with old iPhones, or maybe a "server desk drawer" :-)

While I don't know about this kit in particular, I've had good results with both Cocotron and GNUStep in getting ObjC/Cocoa code to Linux and Windows.

Recently, I also had some Objective-C code running on my Android phone, but that sort of thing is experimental and not well-supported yet.

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My tools have to be usable in all OS my customers require me to work on, hence my question.

What other OSes do you require? GNUStep lists various BSDs, various Linuxes, HP/UX, Solaris, Windows and some embedded systems:

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Platform_compatibility

I also had a large-ish system running on AIX.

Currently I only do job related work in C++, JVM and .NET.

Never looked too much into GNUStep, because it is not clear to me how far Cocoa and the latest language changes from Apple are supported by gcc and clang + GNUStep.

On my line of work it is the customers that decide the technology, not me, so they have a hard time thrusting Objective-C outside Apple's environment.