I'm with you. Despite the verbosity of the NS/Cocoa/etc APIs, Objective-C is a small, flexible, and unambiguous language. It performs very well at runtime, an

I'm with you. Despite the verbosity of the NS/Cocoa/etc APIs, Objective-C is a small, flexible, and unambiguous language. It performs very well at runtime, and is amazingly quick to compile. With version 2.0 and ARC, it became productive in addition to everything else. I get it, it was long in the tooth, and the C legacy was both a blessing and a heavy weight holding the language back, but we lost a lot of the simplicity in the move to Swift.