My comparison was more with the developer experience. In Smalltalk you live inside your program, doing edits as you go along and with dynamic introspection. In

My comparison was more with the developer experience. In Smalltalk you live inside your program, doing edits as you go along and with dynamic introspection. In Objective-C you would edit your program from the outside, and then build it after doing changes, maybe introspect it from the outside. Pharo is a nice implementation of Smalltalk and they have a nice page that describes the top features of the language. Take a look and see if it's different from the developer experience you had with Objective-C: https://archive.is/uAWX5 https://archive.is/uAWX5 (linking to a archive via archive.is as some images couldn't load)