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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by KlayLay on Saturday January 31, 2026 @06:25PM (#46841975)
People still write applications in Objective-C (e.g., see Transmission [1]), and the language is still maintained to support the latest OS. If anything, Apple being the largest sponsor of Objective-C would suggest that you get greater vendor lock-in out of it than Swift, since you can at least use the latter outside of Apple platforms (e.g., on a server).

[1]: https://github.com/transmission/transmission

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by hgs3 on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:38AM (#46843930)
> Apple being the largest sponsor of Objective-C would suggest that you get greater vendor lock-in out of it than Swift

Fun fact, you can use Objective-C on non-Apple platforms [1] and with Cocoa APIs courtesy of the GNUstep project [2].

[1] https://github.com/gnustep/libobjc2

[2] https://www.gnustep.org/

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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by KlayLay on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:37PM (#46847783)
Yes, but does anyone today really do that? The only value I see out of Objective-C on its own is as a performant and compromising Smalltalk.
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by pjmlp on Monday February 02, 2026 @03:05AM (#46853590)
Only if you enjoy being stuck in something like Panther and Objective-C 1.x.
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