alt Hacker NewsMost of the complaints about ObjC seemed to be from the “weird bracket syntax” folks, at least the loud ones.
Memory management, Generics, Fast enumeration, Properties were seamlessly added to ObjC over the years without adding to the cognitive load of the language, which is minimally more than that of C. It’s a small superset of C and (for me) hits that complexity/expressiveness sweet spot. YMMV, of course.
It would be interesting if instead of a new language the Objective-C compiler enforced a a memory safe version of C. That’s the biggest advantage of Swift, imho.
I hated the properties addition in Objective-C. Why add that and not a dot syntax for all messages? Having a dot operator in a pointer blurred too much of the line between C and Obj-C syntax for my taste.