Indeed, I had an entire server blog engine written in objc, I had it running quite well on a Mac VPS (Lion running on vmware on Xserves), that I intended to mov

Indeed, I had an entire server blog engine written in objc, I had it running quite well on a Mac VPS (Lion running on vmware on Xserves), that I intended to move over to a Linode. But I wanted libdispatch, blocks, all the stuff in the newer objc runtime, etc. Back then that meant playing all sorts of games compiling a specific objc runtime (there's more than one outside of apple), in a specific order with other things from GNUstep, using clang at certain steps instead of gcc to compile it all. It was a mess, but if I had really wanted to I probably could have pulled it off, and now I'm sure things have improved. I moved the entire thing to python and forgot about it though. But I've always liked the idea of writing little things that have no GUI of any kind in objc, I wrote a few commandline utilities in objc and loved it. Background services on the system (mac or linux either one) would be fun too I think.