> There’s a number of things that rolled out over the years, and it was really funny at the time because the Objective-C developers externally and even internal

> There’s a number of things that rolled out over the years, and it was really funny at the time because the Objective-C developers externally and even internally to Apple always accused the compiler and language team of taking Objective-C on this random walk, and they didn’t know how it all fit together, and where’s the strategy, and why are you guys working on this and why aren’t you working on some other syntactic sugar that I want? Of course, we could never tell them, but there was a good reason. Here it seems like Apple's culture of secrecy just hurt them for no reason. No really, Apple, you can just tell people what your plan is.