> 2nd, objective c is dead now. It was not a good long-term solution.
How much is GObject used outside of GTK? Isn't that a hundred times deader?
The current number of Objective C users is not directly relevant to this comparison. The comparison pavlov made is to a hypothetical situation where GTK (or whatever you call it) was based on Objective C. If that had happened, GTK's object model would be much less 'dead'.
In that hypothetical world, it would still be sad to see Apple leave, but that world would have far more Objective C users than the current world has GObject users.
2nd, objective c is dead now. It was not a good long-term solution.
3rd, everybody and their cat knew C, while objc was a niche back then.
How is that a good choice for anything non-mac?!