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> Reading all the really, super old documentation that explains entire subsystems in amazingly technical depth

Any links?

> Maybe this is also why Smalltalk fiends are such fans.

I started getting interested in Smalltalk after I tried writing a MacOS program by calling the Objective-C runtime from Rust and had a surprisingly good time. A Smalltalk-style OO language feels like a better base layer for apps than C.

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> Any links?

For example, this guide I was reading just earlier: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Generally everything in that documentation archive is absolutely amazing. I don't know why it's an archive; presumably they laid off or reassigned the entire team working on it and there will be no more. The closest thing today would probably be Technotes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes

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