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Announcing AppScript: an interpreted Objective-C subset with no pointers or primitive C types. We finally got Objective-C without the C. https://codeberg.org/leeg/appscript

appscript

AppScript is a scripting language that simplifies working with Cocoa frameworks.

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Adrian Kosmaczewski Mar 16

@leeg excellent, here's a couple of ideas 💡😅 https://akos.ma/blog/what-objective-c-3.0-could-have-been/

What Objective-C 3.0 Could Have Been

In a parallel universe, in a parallel WWDC 2014, instead of Swift, developers got Objective-C 3.0, and this is what it would have looked like. It’s the same parallel universe where Russia doesn’t annex Crimea, by the way.

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dimsumthinking Mar 16

@akosma @leeg you lost me at the first one. One of two things I miss the most about obj-c are header files (the 2.0 variant where they were only the public interface). The other thing I miss is the code level * which told me whether I was working with a reference or value type