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And quite a bit behind in flexibility and dynamism. Giant step backwards. Vtables? I don't think so. override keywords? WTF? Its not so much they removed the C as the "Object".

Dynamic typing is not "type unsafe". Objective C objects are completely "type safe". They are actually true objects in that they can receive and potentially handle any message sent…

>Heartbleed. Majority of all SSL keys on the internet compromised. All ~2 billion of humans on the internet required to change their passwords due to a single mistake by a single p…

1) So was Java for a bit. It sucked. Developers ignored it. 2) UIApplication.sharedApplication.delegate vs UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate - nope. It isn’t more concise.…

>Unlike C and Objective-C, Swift enumeration members are not assigned a default integer value when they are created Well that’s gonna make storing persistent values tricky.

Objective C isn’t going anywhere. Swift is shit. I suspect it will die in a couple years, like the misguided effort to get people to adopt the Java bridge or WebScript before that.…

>At least Google had the decency to pick a language everybody was already using and use that. If you think Java is remotely comparable in power and expressiveness to Objective C, y…

I got started with WebObjects, a Next product a couple years before Apple bought them. Yes I've written wonderfully powerful web applications in Objective-C back when the rest of t…