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I miss Objective-C, it’s just so darn readable (once you know what @ and [] do)

I wholeheartedly agree. I had a great time in Objective-C.

Missing reference to 2015/2016.

Interesting, I never knew about this. I do remember that NeXT ported OPENSTEP to Windows NT as OPENSTEP Enterprise.

Microsoft's timing was the worst. I think they announced this a year after Swift was already announced, but before Swift was open sourced. So Microsoft wouldn't be able to deal with things like Obj-C/Swift interop which iOS developers were already jumping onto. And Microsoft's Windows 8 mobile initiative was pretty clearly a flop by this point.

Frankly, this Obj-C effort needed to be done way earlier, starting with AppKit, like back when Microsoft was panicking that OS X 10.4 Tiger was going to kick Longhorn's butt. If these tools had already been proven useful before the dawn of the iPhone, Microsoft might have had a chance of riding the iOS wave.

I think a separate objective-c runtime was ported to windows by apple for itunes and later safari to work.

I still have WebObjects 4.5.2, but could not get hands on the YellowBox