Post #254613
2026-02-11 06:26 UTC
I know newcomers to early iPhone development found the preponderance of square brackets off-putting, but man, I really loved the Objective C syntax and wordy method signatures. It seemed so readable to me — the very antithesis of classic C naming conventions. Also, the fast compile times…
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@marioguzman@mastodon.social 2026-02-11 06:28
@command_tab@hachyderm.io you know what... hell yeah. Me too.
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@simon@social.sgawolf.com 2026-02-11 08:30
@command_tab@hachyderm.io I agree. I loved Objective-C and the descriptive verbosity of the method names.
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@bensb@genomic.social 2026-02-11 11:55
@command_tab@hachyderm.io 💯 it took me a while, but nowadays I consider objectiveC the most "elegant" language I've ever coded in. Its readability was just unrivalled, and the code tended to have a structure that facilitated understanding the flow.