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ObjFW is a highly portable, lightweight, general purpose, open source
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Objective-C framework with full Objective-C 2.0, blocks and ARC support,
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providing not only basic classes like strings, arrays and dictionaries,
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but also providing abstractions for OS-dependant functionality like
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asynchronous sockets.
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While a lot of the core API is similar to Foundation, it breaks with
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Foundation's API on purpose in many places to embrace new features which
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Foundation can't use completely due to its backwards compatibility. One
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such example are exceptions, which are a first class citizen in ObjFW
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and not merely to inform the programmer of his wrongdoings like in
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Foundation.
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ObjFW runs on a huge list of platforms and offers the same API on all of
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them so that software written using ObjFW runs on all platforms
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supported by ObjFW without #ifdef hells or the like. It does not only
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run on almost any POSIX system that supports GCC >= 4, but it also works
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on Windows and niche platforms like the PlayStation Portable.
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