Worse is better?

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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.