That “one neat thing” was absolutely huge for APIs and applications. Much more significant for a platform than any feature of C++ ever, for instance. The perfo

That “one neat thing” was absolutely huge for APIs and applications. Much more significant for a platform than any feature of C++ ever, for instance. The performance wasn’t a real problem because you could always use C types for data on performance-sensitive paths. Nobody does Obj-C message calls to iterate over audio samples.