Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C? by pz on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @11:03PM (#401786)

objective c is fine, its cocoa i find daunting. i am used to object.method() syntax so the [object message] syntax was a little hard to parse at first.... but you get used to it.

i went from writing a lot of python to writing obj-c so the transition to a strongly typed, compiled-and-linked language was a bit frustrating. not surprisingly its not as fluid a language as python..... but you get used to it

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C? by cooldude127 on Thursday December 18, 2008 @12:18AM (#401835)

actually, objective-c is not strongly typed. it is quite dynamic, despite the fact that you often see types specified. you could replace every declared type with 'id', and your code would still work, and it would be dynamically typed.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C? by hboon on Thursday December 18, 2008 @04:20AM (#401976)

you probably meant "not statically-typed"

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C? by metachor on Thursday December 18, 2008 @03:11PM (#402575)

Objective-C has weak and dynamic typing, and optionally static typing information can also be added to variables.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of Objective-C? by pz on Thursday December 18, 2008 @07:16PM (#402812)

yes, i stand corrected.

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