I don't know if I'll go quite that far; I'm not going to put on objc blinders to the point where I'm unwilling to see what other platforms do well.
But man, seeing objc and comparing it with its peers across multiple decades... In a world where most people were doing C++ and doing it badly[1], or doing Java and doing it badly, it was very eye-opening to see this tiny little runtime that adds objects to C and doesn't do a bad job of it.
[1] and I'm talking the pre-STL, pre-C++11 at that.
But man, seeing objc and comparing it with its peers across multiple decades... In a world where most people were doing C++ and doing it badly[1], or doing Java and doing it badly, it was very eye-opening to see this tiny little runtime that adds objects to C and doesn't do a bad job of it.
[1] and I'm talking the pre-STL, pre-C++11 at that.