That's an amazing factoid. "NS" standing for NeXTSTEP would then be a popular mi...

ksherlock · on Dec 21, 2016

The OpenStep spec was a collaboration between NeXT and Sun. OpenStep was available as a full OS (for 68k NeXT hardware and 486 beige PCs) as well as running on top of Solaris (SPARC), HPUX, and Windows NT. Sun went with Java instead but Microsoft has a WinObjC project. Go Figure. Until 10.7 or so, OS X still included Windows NT theme graphics [1].

NeXTStep 3.0 used the NS namespace; 2.0 and earlier was NX.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/mac_images/

mycall · on Dec 21, 2016

TIL WinObjC is alive and well.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC

pjmlp · on Dec 21, 2016

You can get some information how Objective-C related to Java at Sun, by the original Java team.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

jahewson · on Dec 21, 2016

Actually it's just a fact! A factoid is something which sounds like a fact but is actually false.

mypalmike · on Dec 21, 2016

I always thought a factoid was a tiny fact.

Merriam Webster actually lists both meanings (small fact and non-fact). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid