Ask Slashdot: Which Classic OOP Compiled Language: Objective-C Or C++?

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 2, 2015 @12:28PM from the not-as-classic-as-COBOL dept.

Qbertino writes: I've been trying to pick up a classic, object-oriented, compiled language since the early 90s, but have never gotten around to it. C++ was always on my radar, but I'm a little torn to-and-fro with Objective-C. Objective-C is the obvious choice if you also want to make money developing for Mac OS X, but for the stuff I want to do, both languages would suffice on all platforms. I do want to start out on x86 Linux, though, and also use it as my main development platform. Yes, I know quite a few other languages, but I want to get into a widespread compiled language that has good ties into FOSS. Both Objective-C and C++ fit that bill. What do you recommend? How do these two programming languages compare with each other, and how easy is cross-platform development in either? (Primarily GUI-free, "headless" applications.)

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Re:Objective C by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-02 12:52 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Might I recommend Go? It's a new spiffy modern language, but very C-like. And despite being compiled, it allows for rapid application development due to elegant syntax, and copious type inference.
No, it doesn't have generics. (it's quite a common question)