I am fascinated that no one uses Objective C on the back end. Fast, low memory, quick to code in, high-level-enough, a mix of static and dynamic typing, and no garbage collection. Also plenty of expertise you can hire for, maybe already within your company. I think if Obj C had a good story for deploying on Linux (and not losing modern features like ARC), it would make sense to use it, so we'd see sites doing it and open source tools like a good webapp framework. It is because you would need to run OS X servers? (And is that even true?)
I think being so heavily pushed by Apple is actually a downside for ObjC here. I really enjoyed programming ObjC when I was programming for iOS and Mac. That was mostly because of the very rich API shipped with Apple products.
Can you point me to a list of libraries written in ObjC that work without Apple specific code? (E.g. without using anything starting with 'NS')
I'm aware of Gnustep, so I was hoping someone would mention it. But I was hoping for more than one word. How many people are using it in production? Have they had good experiences or bad? What are the surprises they've encountered? Does it have ARC support? Can I use XCode to build with it?
