Although still object-oriented (the cult of functional programming was yet to assert its dominance), Swift had a philosophy of self-expression that ran directly counter to Objective-C’s ...

Object-oriented programming allows procedures about objects to be created whose exact type is not known until runtime. For example, a screen cursor may change its shape from an arrow to a line ...

How Rust supports objects. What are Rust’s traits? Cross-language interface challenges. C++ and Java follow a traditional object-oriented programming (OOP) approach that uses a hierarchical ...

A complex object sort, for example, will run 3.9x faster than an implementation of the same algorithm in Python. That’s also faster than Objective-C, which is 2.8x faster than the Python version.