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thundara · 3779 days ago · link · · parent · post: Design+code: Learn iOS design and Xcode (I love everything about this story, the site design, etc)
It's a lovely language that's easy to read / write (Originally described as "executable pseudocode", has a large range of freely available libraries, and hides much of the nitty-gritty from people who don't want to add: "How to compile" and "How to manage memory" to the list of things to learn. On the other hand, benchmark-to-benchmark, it's interpreter isn't the faster in the universe, it doesn't do multiprocessing very well, and there is the current divide in the versioning. When you've hit a performance wall, the language designer's advice is "re-write it in C".