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There's less of a performance hit at runtime than using a scripting language like Ruby/Python/Lua/Perl/PHP, since the generated code uses a fair amount of compiled C.

You can use Smalltalk-style messaging that C++ and C alone wouldn't give you. So you can query objects for methods, variables, and other things that they may or may not have without causing your entire app to crash.

You wouldn't have to wait at runtime for a VM to startup, since Objective-C has no VM. :)

Just a few things.



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