| ▲ | mpweiher 2 hours ago | |
Objective-C is still a sweet spot for this, if you wield it right. It can get you most of the Smalltalk (Python/Ruby) conveniences with most of C's speed. In fact, if you do it really well you can leverage them together to get better than both. Simultaenously. Doesn't mean that people don't manage to wield it in such a way as to get all the convenience of C combined with the performance of Python/Ruby. Which always baffles me. You .... did .... WAT? To me the Right Thing™ here always seemed the obvious and simple thing to do, as in: just don't spend extra effort to mess it up and you'll be fine. YMMV. Plug: my book gives fairly detailed instructions on how to achieve the positive combination. [1] Other plug: Making it easier to get this right is the 2nd of the four stages of Objective-Smalltalk. [2][3] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Objective-C-Performance-Tuning-... [2] https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/12/the-4-stages-of-objectiv... | ||