I've written more code in Ruby than in any other language over the last ten years and I intend to continue using it where it's appropriate. But I have to agree

I've written more code in Ruby than in any other language over the last ten years and I intend to continue using it where it's appropriate. But I have to agree with a lot of other posters that this just seems like a case of people being too lazy to learn something new. If we were talking about the old Obj-C without blocks, ARC and collection literals, I might be more sympathetic. But this just doesn't seem like enough of an improvement to throw out static typing, a decent visual debugger, and first-class, unmediated access to the native APIs without a clumsy pseudo-selector syntax. It's true that Xcode is bad, but the solution to that is to use AppCode, not to throw out the language.