[mucholove]

I learned Objective-C this year and I love it.

It is a fantastic language to use because the tradeoff is obviously evident in the language.

You can use Smalltalk for a day. Understand the history. Understand the compromise.

And Objective-C captures a beautiful moment in the trajectory to ever more high level abstraction.

[pjmlp]

Kind of, they went a bit overboard with @

[blacktriangle]

I think most of the crazy @ features are in Apple's branch. There's still the GNU version floating around working with OpenStep that is much closer to the original Objective-C vision.

[pjmlp]

And largely incompatible with modern Objective-C libraries, so of questionable utility.