Saagar Jha (@saagar@saagarjha.com)

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/14/2023

somewhere out there is a guy who has moved beyond programming language paradigms and achieved enlightenment by writing all of their code in Objective-C++. we can only look on in awe, unable to attain such power

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Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO

04/14/2023 (replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari not _all_, but I do a decent bit of ObjC++ (far more than plain ObjC), and Apple's internal implementations of ObjC frameworks are frequently in ObjC++

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/14/2023 (replying to Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO)

@rcombs Objective-C++ is a version of Objective-C for those who aren’t Objective-C programmers,

Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO

04/14/2023 (replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari ah, so that's why there's so much Apple code in it,

Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)

04/14/2023 (replying to Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO)

@rcombs only part of Apple is ex-NeXT. the rest is ex-Apple!

Saagar Jha

04/16/2023 (replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))

@hikari Using Objective-C++ is sometimes necessary; for example if you want access to non-broken exceptions or generic type-safe swizzling