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This was a good to hear, thanks!
January 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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corneliusmark.bsky.social Cornelius Mark @corneliusmark.bsky.social · Jan 7
I touch it on a weekly basis. I still have some source code under my management that has a lot Objective-C or Objective-C++.
January 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Not much, apparently
I had a weird relationship with ObjC getting into iOS in 2016, just on the cusp of the great renaming of Swift 2 to Swift 3, where my first employer was a little too cheap to get me an updated Big Nerd Ranch guidebook. The common wisdom was; nobody will take you seriously as an engineer unless you learn Objective-C. I was also trying to understand the book "High Performance iOS Apps", all in ObjC, so had to take a lengthy segue through an ObjC tutorial book. While this was useful for expanding my horizons somewhat, I have never in my career had to use ObjC in production.
January 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM