I love "next gen platforms" based on technology from 1986. At least it doesn't use punch cards, I guess.
How many editors out there lack regex and multiple clipboards, both of which have been around forever in vi?
Know the past or you may accidentally reimplement a solution to a problem that has already solved in a better way.
ObjC is basically Smalltalk weakened by some dangerous efficiency hacks we haven't needed for a decade.
IBM and others are actively working on bringing Smalltalk into the future.
Similarly, virtual memory backed by paging to a swapfile is the beautiful, "right" solution to me intuitively for a memory architecture that is made of several storage classes of highly different access times; yet, I have to admit that hourglasses/beachballs aren't a part of most "mobile" systems but often are — frustratingly — part of the desktop OS experience.
In actual practice, there's very little unchecked pointer arithmetic in a Cocoa [Touch] app — you don't access the elements of an NSDictionary via direct (to you) pointer arithmetic but through well-tested methods that fail similarly to how to out-of-bounds collection access fails in managed systems.
Anyway, it's unfortunate that such things are essentially non-comparable in a scientific way to my knowledge; but my experience of ObjC apps is not that they tend to be more crashy or likely to corrupt my data than the Java/C# apps that I also use day-to-day.
we haven't needed for a decade.
You've hit the nail on the head with regard to my complaint.