#objc
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #objc from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-22 12:42 UTC1 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-22 12:42 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #objc.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-22 12:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~12647 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 05:00
Languages: English (38) · German (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.1
Top of the latest posts
Two obscure Swift changes I want to note: ASCII String literals bridged to ObjC will produce a different type in the beta OSs. This generally has no impact (other than greatly improved performance), but code incorrectly treating `NSString *
Hearing that people are successfully using this new diagnostic to track down longstanding Weird Multithreading Bugs®, so seems like a good time to mention it again: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@mikeash/114655617095364169 #objc #objectivec
Bridging non-ASCII NSMutableStrings from ObjC will be slower at the point of bridging, *but* the String produced as a result will be much faster. One particular case this tradeoff can end up not paying off in is if you then bridge the resul
What “objc” means
WikipediaObjective-C is a high-level general-purpose, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style message passing (messaging) to the C programming language. Originally developed by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the early 1980s, it was selected by NeXT for its NeXTSTEP operating system. Due to Apple macOS’s direct lineage from NeXTSTEP, Objective-C was the standard language used, supported, and promoted by Apple for developing macOS and iOS applications from 1997, when Apple purchased NeXT,
“Objective-C” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#objc across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #objc straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/objc