[neverartful]

Objective-C is not sane? Have you ever tried it for anything non-trivial? I know that it's not perfect and it's syntax is unappealing to some. I did iOS development for a few years (pre-Swift) and I really enjoyed using Objective C. I found it to be efficient, intuitive (once you get acclimated), and very pragmatic.

There are some very powerful capabilities in Objective C (like swizzling) that can be of tremendous help when you have some oddball functionality to implement. This would be conceptually very similar to the monkey-patching that folks do with Python. Perhaps this is the sort of thing that makes it not sane to you?