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by gowld 2492 days ago
Objective-C became popular because it was the Mac language.
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DonHopkins 2492 days ago
In the pedantic sense, Objective-C became popular because it was the NeXT language. But by the numbers, its massive popularity was due to the iOS app store gold rush, not NeXT STEP or MacOS or OS/X.
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