ObjC was definitely seen as a dead-end at the time: it would either be replaced with Java, or maybe Mac developers would just stick with Carbon and C/C++. Eithe

ObjC was definitely seen as a dead-end at the time: it would either be replaced with Java, or maybe Mac developers would just stick with Carbon and C/C++. Either way, all driver development (on classic Mac, Windows, Unix) was in C, and C++ would be much more familiar than the “weird obsolete square-brackets NeXT language” I made a post a few years ago discussing the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006411