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hgs3 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)

> Apple being the largest sponsor of Objective-C would suggest that you get greater vendor lock-in out of it than Swift

Fun fact, you can use Objective-C on non-Apple platforms [1] and with Cocoa APIs courtesy of the GNUstep project [2].

[1] https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2

[2] https://www.gnustep.org/

KlayLay 4 months ago | [–]

Yes, but does anyone today really do that? The only value I see out of Objective-C on its own is as a performant and compromising Smalltalk.

pjmlp 4 months ago | [–]

Only if you enjoy being stuck in something like Panther and Objective-C 1.x.

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