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What are it's remaining virtues? (Purely curious)

• efnx 2y ago
  It’s the most widely used dialect of smalltalk and it compiles down to native code. Also it’s a superset of C and C++ so you can mix all three in a single file, for better or worse.
• deergomoo 2y ago
  Not OP, but it compiles orders of magnitude quicker than Swift. It also doesn’t tend to grind Xcode to a halt as the language server tries to work out what’s going on. But, in fairness, it’s a much simpler language than Swift. Which can also be a virtue.
  • raydev 2y ago
    If you need to be nitpicky about squeezing every last bit of performance out, then Objective-C is still useful, especially given you can just drop down to C in the same source files. I've become a big "C is bad and C lovers should feel bad" guy in recent years, but I can't ignore the "simplicity" (for some experience level definiton of simplicity) and speed of the old tools.