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Having recently read up a on Objective-C it strikes me as a fairly neat language with plenty of cool features. I have no intention of doing any iPhone development, however I understand that GCC is able to compile Objective-C code and so I wanted to know - Is Objective-C a viable alternative language to C99 for Windows development? In particular: Is anyone currently doing Windows development using Objective-C? Are there any runtime components that would need to be distributed with my applications? I understand that Objective-C is a superset of C, does this mean that it is possible to use any C-compatible library? (for example the Windows API) Would I get garbage collection in my applications? I've found Cocotron and GNUstep which are often mentioned when talking about using Objective-C on other platforms, however as GCC can already be used to compile Objective-C I don't really understand why I would need these. Are there any other pitfalls or traps I might run in attempting Windows development using Objective-C?

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