> practically everything is allocated on the heap It has gotten a lot better thanks to tagged pointers: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-07-27-let

> practically everything is allocated on the heap It has gotten a lot better thanks to tagged pointers: https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-07-27-lets-build-tagged-pointers.html https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-07-27-lets-bui... Objective C is mostly used for UI code, and I think it's a fantastic language for that, with its Ruby-like weak typing and strong metaprogramming capabilities.