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Re:Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smal... by aaaaaaaaaaab on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:36PM (#32444782)
Actually, I'm glad its a method with a long-ish name. Operator-overloaded string concatenation makes something that can ruin your performance look innocent.

Also, I've never heard of any serious iOS/macOS dev complaining about this.

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Re:Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smal... by wpearse on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:22AM (#32448451)
I can’t speak for other ObjC devs back when the iPhone SDK was released; but I remember just being so grateful that I had any tooling to develop for iOS that I was more than happy to overlook any ObjC weirdness/clunkiness.

ObjC is very simple (often confused with archaic), but also wildly complex. Once you wrap your head around the ObjC way of doing things, everything makes sense, is very consistent, and you could develop very effectively.

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Re:Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smal... by Apocryphon on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:55PM (#32444939)
It's not an issue with autocompletion and Objective-C's verbose naming conventions tend to be more meaningful than those in J2EE, at least.
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