I did some iPhone dev a few years ago. In terms of writing code, I didn’t mind the verbosity because Xcode’s autocomplete worked well enough. It’s not like you

I did some iPhone dev a few years ago. In terms of writing code, I didn’t mind the verbosity because Xcode’s autocomplete worked well enough. It’s not like you actually have to type it all out. In terms of reading code, its verbosity mainly affects the horizontal dimension, which is strongly mitigated by the proliferation of large widescreen displays. In terms of learning the language, the verbosity combined with the autocomplete arguably reduced the need to continually refer back to documentation, as the verbose method (message) names were oftentimes self explanatory.