I don't personally mind Obj-C but there's really no reason to write most apps in a language with so much exposure to all the low-level nastiness of C. You can

I don't personally mind Obj-C but there's really no reason to write most apps in a language with so much exposure to all the low-level nastiness of C. You can currently write iOS apps in C# with Mono but my initial experiments in that direction suggested to me that it was too far out on the limb for comfort.