alt Hacker NewsIMHO the one great feature of Objective-C (compared to C++) is that it doesn't interfere with any C language features. In C++ the C 'subset' is stuck in the mid-1990s, while Objective-C "just works" with any recent C standard.
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plorkyeran • yesterday at 8:05 PM
The one really funny feature of Objective-C++ is that it lets you write C++ using modern C features that haven't been pulled into C++, and you don't have to actually use the Objective part. Designated initializers before C++ got them were the main actually useful application of this.
j16sdiz • yesterday at 6:19 PM
I think C++ have caught up with C99 already. So it's late 90s, not mid-90s :)
Interestingly, I recently auto-translated wget from C to a memory-safe subset of C++ [1], which involves the intermediate step of auto-converting from C to the subset of C that will also compile under clang++. You end up with a bunch of clang++ warnings about various things being C11 extensions and not ISO C++ compliant, but it does compile.
[1] https://duneroadrunner.github.io/scpp_articles/PoC_autotrans...