Objective-C

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1992)

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whosaysni

patricktaylor

brucehoult

dabeaz

bob

jorjun

Josh

acdha

adurdin

daniellindsley

lukeman

nsmgr8

banterability

rah

natevw

jbeigel

fourplusone

tswicegood

bkmontgomery

mallipeddi

bibhas

newman

kan

UloPe

ssbr

cpharmston

paltman

bkonkle

sbastn

jkocherhans

zeroaltitude

CerealBoy

ericflo

sjaekel

aburkhalter

collypops

gabrielrios

robhudson

jjames

joemcmahon

David

krisse2

boutell

richleland

notanumber

cstejerean

tomh

enki

andyrak

ubersoldat

abtin

k_wade_a

codewritinfool

stevejohnson

audreyr

defrex

b3ng0

branesks

Bryan

douglasstarnes

ghoseb

gridaphobe

rrainey

nnrcschmdt

beshrkayali

iamteem

whosaysni - 34 years

patricktaylor - 3 years

brucehoult - 29 years

dabeaz - 2 years

bob - 24 years

jorjun - 1 years

Josh - 23 years

acdha - 21 years

adurdin - 21 years

daniellindsley - 20 years

lukeman - 20 years

nsmgr8 - 20 years

banterability - 19 years

rah - 19 years

natevw - 19 years

jbeigel - 19 years

fourplusone - 18 years

tswicegood - 18 years

bkmontgomery - 3 years

mallipeddi - 1 years

bibhas - 18 years

newman - 18 years

kan - 18 years

UloPe - 18 years

ssbr - 1 years

cpharmston - 17 years

paltman - 17 years

bkonkle - 17 years

sbastn - 17 years

jkocherhans - 17 years

zeroaltitude - 17 years

CerealBoy - 17 years

ericflo - 17 years

sjaekel - 17 years

aburkhalter - 17 years

collypops - 1 years

gabrielrios - 17 years

robhudson - 17 years

jjames - 17 years

joemcmahon - 17 years

David - 17 years

krisse2 - 17 years

boutell - 17 years

richleland - 17 years

notanumber - 1 years

cstejerean - 17 years

tomh - 17 years

enki - 17 years

andyrak - 17 years

ubersoldat - 17 years

abtin - 17 years

k_wade_a - 16 years

codewritinfool - 2 years

stevejohnson - 16 years

audreyr - 16 years

defrex - 16 years

b3ng0 - 16 years

branesks - 16 years

Bryan - 16 years

douglasstarnes - 16 years

ghoseb - 16 years

gridaphobe - 15 years

rrainey - 15 years

nnrcschmdt - 4 years

beshrkayali - 15 years

iamteem - 14 years

whosaysni

1992–

patricktaylor

1996–1998

Some NeXTSTEP and WebObjects (until WO moved to Java)

brucehoult

1997–

I'd followed the development of NeXT with interest, and even played with one in 1989, but didn't get to really play with Objective C++ at home until a developer release of Rhapsody for PowerPC Macs in 1997.

dabeaz

1997–1998

Decided to write all of the programs in my Machine Learning course in Objective-C---mainly just for kicks. It was fun.

jorjun

2002

Did learn enough to write a simple Mac freeware app' during first years of house arrest, when time was on my hands. Found it a tad too much like C++ to actually enjoy...

bob

2002–

Josh

2003–

A few basic OS X apps and an abortive attempt at an iPhone app. I just don't have the patience for memory management anymore!

adurdin

2005–

Some hobby coding on Mac OS, more serious work on iPhone OS.

acdha

2005–

nsmgr8

2006–

Amazing messaging. True object orientation. Cocoa is cool. However, it is too much verbose.

lukeman

2006–

daniellindsley

2006–

natevw

2007–

Totally in love with this language, but its marriage to Apple's platform complicates things.

jbeigel

2007–

rah

2007–

Big Nerd Ranch's Firehose course. Don't remember much.

banterability

2007–

fourplusone

2008–

newman

2008–

Haven't had much time to work with Objective-C but try to fiddle with it from time to time.

tswicegood

2008–

Every few months I come back to Objective C. I love the natural syntax and wish more languages would follow its lead.

bkmontgomery

2008–2010

Dug into this briefly in 2008, but put it aside for a year until I build a few toy iPhone apps in late 2010.

bibhas

2008–

I really like the way things are verbose in Foundation as well as Cocoa. I really dig the delegation pattern in Cocoa.

kan

2008–

mallipeddi

2008

Learnt Objective-C in order to write an iPhone app at work.

UloPe

2008–

cpharmston

2009–

I dabble.

paltman

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bkonkle

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sbastn

2009–

TDD'ing this is hard. Not impossible. Just hard. Need to do more. I do small apps for fun that I never release to the store. That needs to change as well.

zeroaltitude

2009–

iPhone programming.

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if you love brackets, that the way to go.

robhudson

2009–

Learned me some Obj-C for an iPhone app project.

ssbr

2009

joemcmahon

2009–

Started in earnest at iPhone Dev Camp in 2009; still playing around with iPhone apps (including one for work).

David

2009–

jjames

2009–

I discovering the vestiges of Smalltalk's beauty buried deep beneath Objective-C's absurd verbosity, I learned to see OO as a chain of call and response rather than glorified structs on a raft of philosophy. Only after that did I fall in love with the language. XCode didn't hurt.

krisse2

2009–

boutell

2009–

I have two iPhone apps to my credit: "Sync and Speak," which reads RSS feeds aloud, and "Geek: Game of Champions," a game that I've ported to many systems to learn more about them. Both suffer from the fact that I wasn't working with a designer when I created them, but I picked up the desired skillset along the way. I hate the lack of garbage collection on the iPhone, but very much like the tolerant way message passing works.

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Had a look into this when I got interested in iPhone development. After a couple of days I decided "Bugger this, i'll make a web app!"

cstejerean

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tomh

2009–

Such an amazing language when coming from something low level like C... Gotta love the message syntax, so verbose, yet so beautiful

enki

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andyrak

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ubersoldat

2009–

Stupid business trend of making iPhone apps.

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The allure of the native iPhone application finally hit me this year. It only took having some viable ideas of my own that gave me the motivation to jump into learning what most people tend to see as an "everybody wants to do it, but few follow through" type of language. Objective-C has provided me with a lot of new experiences and feelings of accomplishment, mainly because I'm building for a device for the first time.

stevejohnson

2010–

ghoseb

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audreyr

2010–

Currently using this most.

defrex

2010–

branesks

2010–

douglasstarnes

2010–

I actually am coming back to Objective-C now that Xcode is so much better. But Xamarin is still tempting because I can write Android apps and not have to use Java.

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ME.HASSTARTETWITHINYEAR(DUNNO, ANDHASUSEDUNTIL=DUNNO)

Spent two months learning. Couldn't afford a legal Mac machine. GNU Step sucks in practice. I loved it but have no practical use for it at the moment.