Using the Apple development language

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the Apple Store, Objective-C has established itself as the main programming language for iPhone and iPad mobile applications. Although its syntax is not easy to use (especially for beginners), Objective-C offers a powerful object-oriented programming language. This language also offers other features that help in the development process of applications such as: categories, dynamic typing, sending messages between objects, automatic garbage collection

After a few years of quasi-monopoly as the main development language for Apple platforms, Objective-C has lost its position in favour of Swift.

The strengths of Objective-C

• Object-oriented language that offers a feature like sending messages between objects (a feature from Smalltalk).
• Category usage: a category is the part of a class that is taken separately, to keep the class compact and for a specific purpose, in order to provide additional functionality
• Object introspection is simple
• The language offers the dynamic run-time (allows to create classes in a dynamic way, to add methods to an existing class dynamically, to change the method implementation ….)
• Automatic garbage collector has its own process that runs together with the application code
• Easy to use dynamic typing