Objective C

Notes

• To learn ObjC: Best start with the first chapter or two in any intro book, then start a new Xcode Project in Obj-C and make a simple app that does something. Just getting exposed to all the APIs you currently use in their Obj-C forms makes thinking in the language so much easier.

Links

• CocoaAsyncSocket - Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS.
• Objective-C Direct Methods (2019) (Lobsters)
• Functional operators for Objective-C
• Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
• InspectiveC - Inspection tool that you can use to log Objective-C message hierarchies.
• dsdump - Improved nm + Objective-C & Swift class-dump.
• Objective-C-Runtime - Code examples of Objective-C Runtime in Practice talk.
• Embedding Objective-Smalltalk (2020)
• objc-diff - Objective-C API diff report generator.
• objc4 - Buildable and debuggable version of latest Objective-C runtime (objc4-781).
• Objective-C simulator written in Swift
• The Origins of Objective-C at PPI/Stepstone and Its Evolution at NeXT (2020) (HN)
• Advancements in the Objective-C runtime (2020)
• Stop the Swift extension - Turn Apple docs to use Objective-C instead of Swift.
• Objective-Hooker - Extra light, extra simple Objective-C hooking framework.
• HTMLKit - Objective-C framework for your everyday HTML needs.
• Resources for learning Objective-C and AppKit (2020)
• BlockHook - Hook Objective-C blocks. A powerful AOP tool.
• PyObjC - Python <-> Objective-C Bridge with bindings for macOS frameworks.
• Effective Objective-C 2.0 Book (Code)
• Understanding Manual Retain Release in Objective-C (2020)
• Objective-C Properties Problems (2020)
• Lost art of manual memory management (2019)
• Objective-C Implementation and Performance Details for C and C++ Programmers (2017)
• Oral History of Brad Cox (2016)
• Brad Cox has died (HN)
• Tagged Pointer Strings in Obj-C (2015)
• Be careful with Obj-C bridging in Swift (2021)
• How NetNewsWire Handles Threading (2021) (HN)
• Stanford Objective C Lecture (2017)
• Objective-C for Swift Developers Book
• Constant Literals in Objective-C (2021)
• Zen and the Art of the Objective-C Craftsmanship
• libobjc2 - Objective-C runtime library intended for use with Clang.
• How Do I Declare A Block in Objective-C?
• Objective-C Review for Swift Developers (2020)
• ObjectiveScript - Powerful superset of JavaScript, which enables extensive interaction with C and Objective-C code. (Docs)
• RuntimeBrowser - Objective-C Runtime Browser, for Mac OS X and iOS.
• AppleTrace - Objective C Method Tracing Call Chart.
• A Short History of Objective-C (2017) (HN)
• How Swift is better than ObjC
• PINCache - Fast, non-deadlocking parallel object cache for iOS, tvOS and macOS.
• Exposing NSMutableArray (2014)
• Rubicon-ObjC - Bridge between Objective-C and Python.
• Objective-C Cheat Sheet
• Apple Runtime Headers - Objective-C runtime headers for Apple's iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS frameworks.
• Twitter Network Layer (TNL) - Framework for interfacing with the Apple provided NSURLSession stack that provides additional levels of control and insight over networking requests.
• Cocoa Text System (2006) (HN)
• J2ObjC - Command-line tool that translates Java to Objective-C. (HN)
• TDOAuth - BSD-licensed single-header-single-source OAuth1 implementation.
• TJImageCache - Fast, simple Objective-C image cache.
• An Approach for Migrating From Objective-C to Swift (2022)
• Objective Ninja - Binary Ninja plugin & workflow to help analyze Objective-C code.
• ktool - MachO/ObjC Analysis + Editing toolkit.
• Objective-C in Rust
• Using bindgen to generate Rust bindings for Objective-c (2020)
• Compile and debug objective-c runtime
• ObjCGraphView - Objective-C Binary Ninja plugin.
• The Brilliance of “nil” in Objective-C (2022) (HN)
• Debuggable ObjC runtime
• zig-objcrt - Objective-C Runtime bindings for Zig.
• Objective-C ABI Knowledge base
• Objective-S - Architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C. (HN)