Yup. The Standard Apple Deprecation Cycle works something like this: 1. New shiny thing is announced 2. Old busted thing starts getting talked about less 3.

Yup. The Standard Apple Deprecation Cycle works something like this: 1. New shiny thing is announced 2. Old busted thing starts getting talked about less 3. New shiny thing becomes the default, old busted thing hidden away 4. Official deprecation warnings issued 5. Old busted thing stops being supported. Apple being Apple, this quickly leads to 6. Old busted thing stops working altogether after something like an OS update. We're currently at step 2. Originally I thought that Obj-C would be kicking around for a lot longer, but given that Apple dropped an entire CPU architecture in relatively short order, and their scorched earth attitude towards backwards compatibility... I give it 2, maybe 3 years before ObjC isn't officially supported in Xcode anymore.