I can't agree here. Yes, there are a lot of people who turn their nose up at the OS X/iOS development toolchain simply because it is unfamiliar. They see the

I can't agree here. Yes, there are a lot of people who turn their nose up at the OS X/iOS development toolchain simply because it is unfamiliar. They see the square brackets and write it off immediately. But the argument that the toolchain is not polished is dead on. If you look at the work Apple are doing under the hood with LLVM etc., then yes, they are doing some very smart things. But everything on top of that is pretty damn dismal. Xcode is incredibly buggy. iTunes Connect is hell. There is functionality that is just plain wrong. There are features that are inexplicably missing. Version control integration is so poor everybody I know uses external tools instead. Code-signing is held together with bits of string. Functional regressions from earlier versions mystify me. Xcode build configuration is so much of a hassle that it's easier to avoid it altogether by putting everything into xcconfigs. The code quality in the templates is awful. If this kind of quality were foisted on end-users, there would be uproar. It's the opposite of Apple's "just works" philosophy. It seems the application-level dev tools team is where they stick all the students and new hires who don't know what they are doing. I think the fundamental design of Objective C is a little old in places but has held up remarkably well over the years. Cocoa has a fantastic design. But christ, the development tools at the application level are a fucking embarrassment.