{"id":32473,"date":"2021-05-13T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T19:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32473"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:53:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:53:25","slug":"an-appreciation-of-objective-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/13\/an-appreciation-of-objective-c\/","title":{"rendered":"An Appreciation of Objective-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kocienda.micro.blog\/2021\/05\/09\/stopping-time-an.html\">Ken Kocienda<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kocienda\/status\/1391495893338128387\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/kocienda.micro.blog\/2021\/05\/09\/stopping-time-an.html\"><p>Over the next fifteen years, I wrote code in ObjC just about every day. The language offered me a small collection of rules on the surface and a deep well of flexibility underneath. This combination facilitated and encouraged quick and playful experimentation. The language allowed me to wink and say, &ldquo;I know what I&rsquo;m doing.&rdquo; ObjC winked back and became a willing participant in helping me make computers do cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>It remains one of the best languages ever for creating apps and frameworks. I&rsquo;ve loved every minute I&rsquo;ve spent coding in it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I learned Objective-C around the same time and identify with what he&rsquo;s saying. But I really like Swift, too, and prefer it in most cases. I think that my Swift code is more reliable and easier to read. These days it&rsquo;s mostly not the Swift language that gets in my way, but the slow and unreliable tooling.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Kocienda (tweet): Over the next fifteen years, I wrote code in ObjC just about every day. The language offered me a small collection of rules on the surface and a deep well of flexibility underneath. This combination facilitated and encouraged quick and playful experimentation. The language allowed me to wink and say, &ldquo;I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-05-13T19:59:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"969e5b1e-ccc1-4b4a-af18-891aa82cbc46","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-05-13T19:59:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Alp5bHszBS0qvGIkaqCy8Rg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,1837,26,54,71,901,226],"class_list":["post-32473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-iosapp","tag-objective-c","tag-programming","tag-swift-programming-language","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32474,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32473\/revisions\/32474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}