Objective-C

“While it is certainly possible to circumvent this if you put your mind to it, it is remarkably safe in practice.”

“the Smalltalk-ness of Objective-C is one of the things that makes it feel so much different”

“Objective-C has indeed some impressive features, but also some inefficiencies”

“it was locked inside the Apple ecosystem, and Apple made no serious effort to change that”

“Same kudos goes to Apple by pushing Objective-C and Swift, no matter what.”

“That's a design feature and it's huge. It made interoperability trivial.”

“NeXTStep and Cocoa/CocoaTouch, arguably the most elegant pieces of OS-level/UI-framework software ever, were written in Objective-C”

“The problem with ObjC was mainly syntax, bolted on over many years on top of a C core.”

“the programming industry completely resisting learning the lessons of Objective-C because it doesn't like them”

“And I was deep into the ObjC ecosystem, having written very low-level frameworks, and having loved it.”

“Objective-C in contrast was a very few additions thoughtfully added that composed cleanly and freed the programmer to actually get things done.”

“ObjC is a far superior, much simpler, object-oriented language than C++”

“I've never found Cocoa / Objective C to have any of the problems the author mentioned.”

“managed to add a simple but practical object system to C without all the added baggage of C++”

“Adding Smalltalk message passing as an extension to C was very clever and allowed writing very efficient code”

“The only truly OO programming languages that I know of are SmallTalk, Obj-C, and Ruby”

“With property syntax sugar, however, you can't tell whether "a.length" is sending a bunch of messages or simply accessing a struct”

“I remember looking at it and thinking it was pretty fragile and boilerplate-y”

“when the goal was to be TypeScript for C, before this was even a concept”

“I don't miss @ and [] all over the place, even if Objective-C has some cool ideas into it.”

“as a direct superset of C, is that you can identify the slow parts of your app”

“Writing objective-c code for mac os GUI apps was one of those things that finally made”

“does not prevent crashing when addressing an already released object”

“unexpected null can still cause bugs in ObjC when the developer isn’t paying attention”

“One of the things I miss about Objective C is just how easy it is to call into a C API”

“I don't miss maintaining header files or having to operate in old codebases that badly manage Obj-C's looseness”

“At first I had the usual revulsion to the syntax, but after a few days getting used to it, I actually don't mind it at all now.”

“it taught me so much that I didn't understand since I started out doing web dev”

“One of the final jigsaw pieces turning it into a really pleasant language.”

“the insane amount of boilerplate prototyping and headers required to use it”

“development of UI software is one of those areas where object oriented software really shines”

“really quite pleasant once you get used to it, especially compared to other languages from the same time period”

“I think it's a great language! As long as you can tolerate dynamic dispatch, you really do get the best of C/C++ combined with its run-time manipulable object type system.”

“The only value I see out of Objective-C on its own is as a performant and compromising Smalltalk.”

“In terms of Apps and Low Level Stack Objective-C doesn't seems wrong in my book.”

“There were no types in the whole file, everything was an 'id' (aka void*) and there were 'isKindOfClass' and null checks all over the place.”

“What I like about objective-c’s error handling approach is that a method that can fail is able to tell if a caller considers error handling or not.”

“i find it amazing that an os-level 3d graphics api can be built in such a dynamic language as objective-c”

“So much of the functionality that made it stand out was predicated on Objective-C's somewhat unique programming model.”

“Obj-C is unusable for many new Apple platform features. Not suitable for building anymore.”