Context: Soroush Khanlou, via Jason Brennan. And I’m drafting a less-snarky response now.

I was reading an article on Objective-C, and I still don’t quite get it.

Lifting a simple example from the post, are we really down to say that

{% highlight objc %}

import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main (int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSLog (@"Hello, World!");
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
{% endhighlight %}

is better code than:

{% highlight bash %}

!/bin/bash

echo "Hello World"
{% endhighlight %}

It seems that people are looking for something new, rather than something good.