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Objective-Smalltalk with Interscript. https://objective.st It ain't a version of Squeak, though.

> Well, [throwing away the complete rendered graphics] is what "retained mode" GUIs (i.e. those using control/widget trees and such) do too. That turns out not to be the case. The …

No. Just that within the Apple ecosystem, the terms were used in a specific way. Apple GC is a form of GC. There is no redefinition going on. It is correct. However, it is ridiculo…

> until they saw the Objective-C adoption numbers were high enough. Nope. Until they saw that (a) CocoaJava was a complete dud, not just technically, but also in terms of developer…

> CocoaJava was when they were not certain devs educated in C++ and Object Pascal would ever accept Objective-C. They actually went all in on CocoaJava. I was there for the WWDC. >…

Because the UI is supposed to be stable.

That's pretty much where immediate mode GUIs and to a less extent React came from. (Though for React the provenance is probably closer to the HTML web-app: send request - update mo…

Happy to rename my stuff "Objective-Swift" :-)

> I like my Controller to be responsible for all the "business logic" so that its all in one place. Business logic is supposed to go in the model. All of it. Because it's the impor…

>How do you handle UI state vs. underlying data (model) state, and dependencies between them? I don't. And I don't have to, as I delegate that sort of stuff (mostly) to Cocoa/Cocoa…

Common misconception, but nope. The quote is from the original definition by Trygve Reenskaug, the inventor of MVC (see link above). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve_Reenskaug …

> For example, sync updates 100 items in a list changing their titles. Items are bound to a list in the UI. Thus, 100 unique title update events triggered. Those "updates" go in th…

Many, though I have to start with this disclaimer: I still don't fully understand why Objective-C is such a sweet spot. One very important one is that, empirically, it showed how m…

You obviously have some very non-standard definitions at work here. apply/map/collect are just higher order operations, they have nothing to do with reification, except that you ne…

> Swift should have been a modernized Objective-C. It should have kept the best parts of it, which made it a joy to use, and leave the archaic and the weird things behind. That's w…