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altimac · 2016-11-24 16:50:22

I really love Objective-C, I hope it will never die :) thanks

marvel_boy | karma 1063 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2021-09-19 03:36:24

Believe it or not. But Objective-C continuous to evolve. It is not a dead language.

boucher | karma 4602 | avg karma 3.9 · | 2008-03-18 07:42:02+00:00

Ahh, Objective-C. Such an under appreciated language. Perhaps not for much longer though.

chmaynard | karma 27043 | avg karma 7.7 · | 2016-12-14 12:37:45+00:00

...long live Objective-C!

tomwilson | karma 76 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2016-01-31 08:38:52

I still prefer objective-c most of the time. RIP :-(

allenbrunson | karma 3207 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2009-01-26 03:38:34+00:00

objective-c has a particular set of strengths that is well-suited to gui development. if you count its beginnings at next, it has been in use in this environment for over 20 years. there is no way in hell apple would abandon it now.

themartorana | karma 6443 | avg karma 3.99 · | 2015-08-05 02:12:32+00:00

Agreed. When I first started out I never could have guessed it would become my favorite language. Apple did a lot of great things during my tenure writing ObjC - GCD and ARC are probably the best. I couldn't believe how easy it was to write performant code, both for powerful desktops and power-starved mobile devices.

It was the first place (pre-ARC) that I learned to manage my own memory, and the first (pre-GCD) that I learned to be as safe as possible in a multi-threaded environment.

If in fact Swift is the death-knell of Objective-C, I will be sad. I've written C and C++ and Python and Go and Scheme and Lisp and on and on (Java, C#...) and it will remain one of my favorites for years to come.

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runjake | karma 12875 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2021-06-04 19:14:43+00:00

I miss Objective-C. It is such a beautiful, elegant language.

veidr | karma 8357 | avg karma 4.56 · | 2015-08-17 08:00:02

You aren't wrong. Objective-C is dying. The huge machine that nursed the frail, nearly-forgotten language back to health -- and then pumped it full of steroids and made it a monster -- has been disconnected, and hooked up to Swift, instead.

Apple's bet on Objective-C was the only thing that made it broadly relevant -- but now they have moved on, and Apple is generally the type of company that does the opposite of "support both forever".

I agree that it is dying very slowly, however. You will probably still be able to write OS X apps in Objective-C in 2020, albeit with various caveats.

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WorldWideWayne | karma 702 | avg karma 0.86 · | 2014-10-25 15:59:47+00:00

Objective-C is here to stay as long as Apple hardware is a popular target for apps.

Once the Apple fad ends, Objective-C will be useless. It's already useless for the enterprise.

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tinus_hn | karma 7585 | avg karma 1.16 · | 2021-01-23 11:55:45+00:00

What a legacy. Objective-C feels like a fun toy you can play with, it really does make cool things quite easy that are really hard in most other languages, like the iOS animation system.

jparishy | karma 360 | avg karma 4.09 · | 2012-06-01 15:00:27+00:00

Indeed. Plus I think well-designed Objective-C is some of the prettiest code out there. Though I've been using it for a few years now almost exclusively (for the most part) so maybe I am a bit biased.

Klonoar | karma 5879 | avg karma 3.02 · | 2022-12-09 15:20:01

Interesting. Maybe this is the true death of Objective C?

saagarjha | karma 56017 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2019-06-14 00:40:11+00:00

I still find writing Objective-C relatively enjoyable in this decade. It’s much nicer than C++, for example.

vbezhenar | karma 14076 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2020-04-10 08:15:31

What's the status of Objective C language today? Is it fully supported forever or is it in legacy status waiting for its support to be dropped in the future?

jimhart3000 | karma 231 | avg karma 4.71 · | 2014-03-21 14:13:30

Objective-C as well.

brianmckenzie | karma 647 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2008-08-25 18:27:54

Objective-C here, too. It's kinda cool because I get to re-learn C at the same time.

apple4ever | karma 881 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2018-04-23 15:17:39+00:00

Me too. I absolutely love Objective-C and its syntax. Admittedly it takes some time to get use to and understand, but once you do, its beautiful.

pjmlp | karma 109153 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2021-07-15 13:31:11

It is called Objective-C. :)

professorTuring | karma 335 | avg karma 1.85 · | 2014-06-05 06:16:39

  "No. Languages take a while to die. C is still around."

That is unfortunate. You can't compare a language supported by mostly one company as Objective-C against one of the most important languages around.

C is widely used and a not dead, not even wounded language. Thousand of companies use it every day in core systems, embedded systems...

I am really wondering why you have suggested C being dead or on his way to die...

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