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pjmlp 41 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SwiftUI After 7 Years

So just like Objective-C?

Rescued by NeXT's acquisition, having failed to gain market adoption otherwise.

dosisking 40 days ago [–]

The Objective C at StepStone was completely different than the one at NeXT. It was very primitive. Steve Naroff did pretty much all of the heavy lifting, and turned Objective C into a language that could be used to create NeXTStep, and then OS X, and eventually iPhone.

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