Worse is better?

Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Oct 14 06:20:21 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 13:02:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 October 2014 at 12:39:37 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
>> Objective-C is a C superset and Swift offers the required 
>> unsafe constructs for the ultimate performance if I really 
>> want to.
>>
>> My remark was that what should be emphasized is coding in a 
>> more performance aware style, no need to switch languages.
>
> Objective-C is a C superset in name, but not in spirit. 
> Objective-C/Cocoa is to a large extent a parallell universe. If 
> you want to go for performant C you have to drop down to 
> CoreFoundation et al.

Don't blame a library, for a language layer what matters is the 
language grammar. :)

--
Paulo


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