Well at least one other person with credibility, Jesper of Waffle Software, seems to think Apple might be in (getting into?) a position to sanction a new development language. Jesper calls it “xlang” and thinks it’s meant to surpass Objective-C. But not replace it. Good comments as well on Jesper’s Surpass post.
Jibes a bit with my theoretical out gambit for Apple and Section 3.3.1. Especially since Apple sponsors and contributes personnel time to MacRuby and heavily uses LLVM.
And I had forgotten John Siracusa’s in-depth projection of the future of Mac OS, including a heavy dose of what could happen to Objective-C.