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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)

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107 points wmlive | 2 comments | 12 Nov 24 01:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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itslennysfault ◴[13 Nov 24 19:50 UTC] No.42129253[source]▶
So, this is why the abomination that is Obj-C is/was used for iPhone/Mac apps. I can't overstate how much I hate Obj-C. I'm so sooo happy Swift has pretty much entirely taken over.

Side note... I feel similarly about the Java to Kotlin transition. Sooo much better. Although, I don't hate Java NEARLY as much as Obj-C.

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1. incanus77 ◴[13 Nov 24 21:35 UTC] No.42130250[source]▶
I'm back in Objective-C now for a large mixed codebase for a client and enjoying it. It was my first compiled language starting in 2002 so I've got about equal time with only it as I do with Swift alongside. And I'm spending more time these days in other projects (microcontrollers, mostly) using C so it's a breath of fresh air. I'm finding it generally faster than Swift in Xcode, which is a bonus.
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2. neverartful ◴[13 Nov 24 22:50 UTC] No.42131095[source]▶
I too am back in Objective-C and being away from it for a long while and I'm also enjoying it. For the most part, I really like Objective-C. I think it's a very pragmatic language. My current project is macOS, but the vast majority of my prior work with Xcode and ObjC was with iOS development.