Why it's used by Apple is inertia, what it brings to the table that C and C++ don't is balance. Obj-C tends to bring the best of both worlds, while making slig

Why it's used by Apple is inertia, what it brings to the table that C and C++ don't is balance. Obj-C tends to bring the best of both worlds, while making slight tradeoffs. It brings the benefits of compile time type checking, while retaining dynamic typing at runtime. Try adding methods at runtime to a C++ object. Obj-C is reasonably good at a number of things and integrates very cleanly with C++ and C.