Building a Better Objective C

26 Oct 2014 • owensd.io

I think the biggest disservice we can do to the Cocoa developer community is remove the underpinnings of the ObjC runtime. It is the language’s, and I truly believe, the platforms’ greatest strength.

I believe if we hide the complexities of C from our source code and focus on letting the power of the ObjC runtime shine through in our code, we can create a new language that provides of the great flexibility of the ObjC runtime while still accomplishing many of the goals that Swift is attempting to solve - namely safer code by default.

It was only a matter of time. Obviously some folks are very disappointed with the direction Swift has taken and the dynamic nature of Objective-C that’s been lost.