Why Do People Hate Objective C? 62% People Do (299 opinions)

Objective-c is the biggest joke
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To quote Apple, "Objective-C is an elegant object-oriented language". That is the most laughable statement ever. But wait, here is another gem. "Objective-C is a simple language with syntax and ... read all

by Ryan on 07 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
The signal/noise ratio for objective c code is one
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The signal/noise ratio for objective c code is one of the worst I've seen. Long, confusing qualifier required @property (strong/weak, atomic/nonatomic) Type *myValue; That's a lot of crap to simply ... read all

by Jake on 02 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's super annoying! Everything you do takes twice
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It's super annoying! Everything you do takes twice as long as in any other language I've used. Syntax and structure apparently all had to suffer in order to make for ... read all

by TBZ92 on 15 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
You cannot mutate a collection during fast enumera
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You cannot mutate a collection during fast enumeration, even if the collection is mutable. If you attempt to add or remove a collected object from within the loop, you’ll generate ... read all

by 60Hz on 03 Apr - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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Objective C sucks, let me count the ways...
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it's so poorly designed, categories seem interesting but there is no way inherent in the language to avoid future (or past) function conflicts; function names and their arguments make no ... read all

by 60Hz on 02 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Objective C sucks without any valid reasons
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I hate it very very very much. the method calling syntax is cumbersome both in definition and in calling. The memory management is so confusing, with so many versions with ... read all

by Dennis P on 18 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Brainfuck
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Brainfuck the apple style read all

by User-288682 on 21 Jan - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Ugly, Old
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It feels like it's 1985 all over again. Almost as bad as C++. Objective-C and Cocoa feel like relicts from the stoneage with languages such as C# and the .NET ... read all

by Amplicat0r on 01 Nov - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Ugly
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The syntax is so goddman ugly and unintuitive!!! Arguably, that's one of the most important things about a programming language. You've got to be able to read your code in ... read all

by Merott M on 23 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
The syntax is ugly, it is a derivative of C
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The syntax is ugly, it is a derivative of C with extended functionality that really shouldn't added in the first place. When writing code I think to myself, "Why not ... read all

by Cammie G on 04 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Objective C has very very bad plain and syntax
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I'm a developer Assembly, C, C++, Java, PHP, C#, JavaScript and Ruby, but I did not see the ugliest of plaint and syntax , It is not a language for ... read all

by نبيل ا on 02 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Objective C is TERRIBLE
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with more than 10 years of programming with other languages, I feel Terrible with Objective C. After working with it for more than 2 months, I still spend sometimes several ... read all

by programmerkh2012 on 26 Jul - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
containers in objective c
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Objective C is a SHIT when dealing with arrays of simple types, LIKE ints... it is very primitive language on array initializers... the language is 10 YEARS BEHIND java or ... read all

by Hugo R on 10 Jul - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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containers in objective c
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Objective C is a SHIT when dealing with arrays of simple types, LIKE ints... it is very primitive language on array initializers... the language is 10 YEARS BEHIND java or ... read all

by Hugo R on 10 Jul - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Found a way to program iPhone in C/C++
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I hate Objective C and finally I found a way to write an iPhone app in C/C++. I have written lots of games in C/C++ and I just needed a ... read all

by Stan on 21 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
The shetness of objecive C just blows my mind.
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The shetness of objecive C just blows my mind. I've programmed c/c++, ruby, vb, python, java, and some x86 asm. Now am in a school project which requires me to ... read all

by tony on 13 Jun - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
the syntax is crap. at first, i thought "what the
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the syntax is crap. at first, i thought "what the hell are these index operators supposed to mean?". then, you can call methods that dont even exist. the compiler just ... read all

by Sebastian R on 30 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's actually worse then Delphi 3
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The syntax is not the biggest problem, although it's crap. IOS prior to 5 has no ARC, so you get all the memory management crap Java/C# solved ages ago. The ... read all

by DZoe on 15 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Simply, It is suck! Everyone who understand a
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Simply, It is suck! Everyone who understand a principle of programming language design will agree on this. read all

by Ake L on 31 Mar - 3 replies - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's the worse programming language ever designed
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It's the worse programming language ever designed. To do something simple you have to right too much code. It's too complex, counter intuitive, too many brackets, difficult to read. It's ... read all

by ejc on 27 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag