Dr Smalltalk

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Objective-C.:

A quick lightning talk from #rubyconf_au 2013 at how Rubyists should take a serious look at Objective-C because it's closer to what they love than they realise.

Thanks to @karlbright for the Dr Strangelove / Alan Kay mashup.

Transcript

1. Dr Smalltalk or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Objective-C.
3. Objective-C is really, really neat.
4. Like, super neat.
5. Take C
6. 1 tbsp Smalltalk
7. And a whole bunch of crazy
8. and you have Objective-C
9. Verbosity means many excellent APIs
10. Monkey Patching
11. alias_method_chain
12. Swizzling
13. Object#send
14. NSObject: -performSelector:(SEL)sel;
15. objc_msgSend
16. A wealth of APIs
17. Blocks!
18. ARC It’s kind of like GC, at compile time.
19. It’s not C++.
20. Give it a shot.