Yeah, I'm confused as well. Objective-C without C is Smalltalk. This looks like Python with types. Objective-C took a static language and made it dynamic with m

Yeah, I'm confused as well. Objective-C without C is Smalltalk. This looks like Python with types. Objective-C took a static language and made it dynamic with messages and objects. This takes a dynamic language and makes it more or less "static". So, if anything, it is exactly the opposite of Objective-C. To be clear, I didn't spend too much time examining this, so I might be way off. Grafting types onto a language doesn't interest me.