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

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107 points wmlive | 1 comments | 12 Nov 24 01:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:17 UTC] No.42130754[source]▶
Ah, Objective C. The language that combines the famous memory safety of C with the blazing-fast performance of Smalltalk.
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1. nxobject ◴[14 Nov 24 17:27 UTC] No.42138622[source]▶
Hey hey, objc_msgsend’s no longer C ABI compatible, [1] so make that the famous memory safety of assembly now…

[1] https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/objc_msgsends-new-prototype.h...