Sure, Obj-C was esoteric, but also well-designed and impressively ahead of its time. Witness that a minor evolution of the same tech went on to form the foundat

Sure, Obj-C was esoteric, but also well-designed and impressively ahead of its time. Witness that a minor evolution of the same tech went on to form the foundation of iOS. Even now, with Apple trying to transition to Swift, it's unclear to me that's an overall win. The combination of C plus message-passing was inspired. So basically I agree Cocoa was better tech than Carbon. Carbon was popular with devs 'cuz that's what they were used to, and that's what their existing apps were written in...it was a great stop-gap measure, but wouldn't have provided nearly as good a foundation for the future (in my opinion).