My original reaction to this was "WTF. There should be a class action suit against Apple by developers along the lines of hindering freedom of speech". ... but

My original reaction to this was "WTF. There should be a class action suit against Apple by developers along the lines of hindering freedom of speech". ... but then, any compiler that can generate the processor's instructions can obviously also be modified to generate Objective-C code. So I guess this will result in all the cross-compilers just changing their target language from llvm or assembly to ... Objective-C. I can live with that ... and watch Apple slap themselves on their pretty foreheads ... whatever it is they hoped to accomplish in terms of lock-in :)