{"id":5957,"date":"2012-09-15T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2012-09-15T15:34:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T20:34:39","slug":"objective-c-compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/objective-c-compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses of Objective-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Objective-C-programming-language\/What-are-the-theoretical-and-practical-weaknesses-of-Objective-C\/answer\/Rob-Rix\">Rob Rix<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Objective-C-programming-language\/What-are-the-theoretical-and-practical-weaknesses-of-Objective-C\/answer\/Rob-Rix\"><p>Objective-C is a compromise by design, and it is utterly unembarrassed by this. It is, I think, a <i>good<\/i> compromise, finding a sweet spot where one has very convenient access to low-overhead constructs for performance (C and C++ can be linked in and even intermingled with ObjC) while still having a nice dynamic messaging system supporting flexible late-bound polymorphism.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also a compromise from the &rsquo;80s. (Relatively) recent advances in functional programming (among other spheres) sometimes make me wonder if we could strike a better one today.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Rix: Objective-C is a compromise by design, and it is utterly unembarrassed by this. It is, I think, a good compromise, finding a sweet spot where one has very convenient access to low-overhead constructs for performance (C and C++ can be linked in and even intermingled with ObjC) while still having a nice dynamic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","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":[46,54,71],"class_list":["post-5957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-languagedesign","tag-objective-c","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957","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=5957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5959,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5957\/revisions\/5959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}