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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
@hikari One can only dream – I was briefly on a path towards that but only got to implementing CLI tools in Objective-C using the GNUstep frameworks
@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++
@rcombs Objective-C++ is a version of Objective-C for those who aren’t Objective-C programmers,
@hikari ah, so that's why there's so much Apple code in it,
@rcombs only part of Apple is ex-NeXT. the rest is ex-Apple!
@hikari Using Objective-C++ is sometimes necessary; for example if you want access to non-broken exceptions or generic type-safe swizzling