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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Objective C comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, TBPN, 20VC
FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
- ▶ 48:00 Greg Isenberg And I remember going to a teacher, a professor, well-known guy, and saying, why can't we, why can't you teach us how to build an Objective-C and to build for the App Store?
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:20 Michael Truell We did that, and we were hit with these weird, colorful, esoteric symbols, which were Objective-C, which, you know, is still around, but maybe a little bit less popular than it was then, for good reasons. 3 times in the scene
Former Microsoft Executive Explains Where We Are in the AI Cycle w/ Anish Acharya & Steven Sinofsky
- ▶ 22:45 Steven Sinofsky But then, um, C++ came along, and there were 50 languages in the middle that people don't talk about, like Objective-C being one of them, that was the, the iPhone language, which was really one Steve Jobs.
We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 50:12 unnamed speaker Yes, yes, I wrote Objective-C.
Mobile App King: 2 Lines of Code Make Him $3.6 Million Per Year
- ▶ 23:38 Nathan Latka He started off, get this, with Objective C, ugh, in 20, 10, 1414 years old.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 43:29 John Coogan This is their VS code competitor that you need to use to write Objective-C apps for the, uh, for if you're building iPhone software, uh, for building apps for Apple platforms, uh, developers can also plug in other models using API keys,…
- ▶ 2:38:47 John Coogan I wrote Objective-C.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 9:55 Chris Lattner But everybody inside Apple that knew about it said, no, no, no, Objective-C is fine. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:02 Chris Lattner Objective C is good enough. 3 times in the scene
Reid Hoffman: Why The AI Investment Will Pay Off
- ▶ 35:32 Reid Hoffman So as opposed to the previous skill set, it's kind of like the example of transformation is like, okay, I learned to do, uh, very precise semantics of how, when I'm using, you know, objective C, how I do memory management, you know, et…
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 41:26 Romain Huet I think back in the days of Objective-C or, like, you know, the storyboard, it was a bit harder to get in for someone new, but now with Swift and SwiftUI, their dev tools are really exceptional, but now when you combine that with O-one as…
20VC: The Biggest AI Leaders on What Matters More; Model Size or Data Size & Where Does The Value in AI Accrue; to Startups or to Incumbents
- ▶ 26:14 Tomasz Tunguz Startups were the first ones to understand how to write mobile apps with Objective-C.
Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:47 Glen Coates I'll learn objective C.
Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
- ▶ 17:41 Ben Gilbert Yeah, the analogy's not perfect, but it's like, instead of just Apple saying, okay, Objective-C is the way that you write code for our platforms, good luck.
a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- ▶ 2:28 Qasar Younis And then you think, well, in 2010, there's 11 to 12 excitement that just a few years later, 2015, 2016, nobody's, you know, writing objective C, these waves go really, really fast, and I think a good kind of, ah, adage, I think it was Bill…
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 8:34 unnamed speaker Uh, Swift, as it was described, is objective C without the objective, or without the C, I can't remember which, but tell us from, and granted, they just announced today, and it was a surprise to everyone, um, what it starts to look like,… 4 times in the scene
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:21 Ralph Goody So we've got iOS, Swift, Objective-C, Android, all Java and Kotlin, Web, React, and then Windows.