The nature of software is to always be evolving. COBOL jokes aside, it’s rare to find programming frameworks that reach a level of maturity and support that allow them to just exist without being supplanted by a newer language or a better abstraction. Which naturally is great. Who wants to find themselves writing software with the expectations of today while performing the tasks of manual memory management or manipulating strings that are just raw pointers in a block of memory terminating with a null (\0) character? But sometimes in this constantly evolving space, you find a framework that resonates, and you hold on to it tightly. I wanted to share how this happened for me, first with Ruby (no surprise) but then oddly with Objective-C.

source: L