No Objective-C was not dead before iOS. A thriving Apple was supporting Objective-C in every way possible, and moving from Carbon to Cocoa. Objective-C is used

No Objective-C was not dead before iOS. A thriving Apple was supporting Objective-C in every way possible, and moving from Carbon to Cocoa. Objective-C is used to build applications for Apple software. It's not a threat to Java, but that doesn't mean Objective-C is dead. Objective-C will be around for a long time to come. It's a modern language that powers all of Apple's most recent technology. They have no reasons to change, and there are no signs that Apple is on the verge of disappearing into the aether. Vim is shitty software. I like the UI, but the thing is single threaded and everything runs on the UI thread. There's no hope for async, or an event loop, or even a settimeout like feature. The code is full of globals and trying to add new features to the thing is going to result in inexplicable, unfathomable seg faults. Vim uses shitty regular expressions in the UI thread to do syntax highlighting which is why that's slow for big files and why the syntax highlighting breaks. So the code matters. There will never be powerful IDE like features as long it's this single threaded thing that only ever does anything as a response to user input. Given the state of the code, changing this does not seem ever possible.