Which would become the inspiration for Apple’s Macintoshīrad Cox and Tom Love started work the first version of Objective-C,Ī language that sought to take the object-oriented paradigm of SmalltalkĪnd implement it on solid fundamentals of C. With the creation of the Smalltalk programming language.ĭuring this time, researchers at Xerox PARC also developed the Kay put this idea into practice in the ’70s With the help of Adele Goldberg, Dan Ingalls, and his other colleagues at To the origin of OOP itself: Object-Oriented ProgrammingĪlan Kay coined the term “object-oriented programming in the late 1960s. You need to know a few things about the Objective-C runtime.īut let’s start our discussion one step before that, To understand the significance of direct methods,
We’re taking this occasion to review Objective-C method dispatchingĪnd try to understand the potential impact of this new language featureĭirect methods could show up as early as Xcode 11.x,īut most likely, it’ll be announced at WWDC 2020. With enough documentation and test coverage (sometime in the early ’00s, by our estimation). Which doesn’t tell us much beyond its relative age The most we have to go on is an Apple-internal Radar number The genesis of this new language feature is unclear Which adds a new direct dispatch mechanism to Objective-C methods. Rather than an investment in the language itself
It’s hard to get excited when new features come to Objective-C.Īny such improvements are in service of Swift interoperability
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