My timeline and experience is similar. Also, I started web development with Perl back in the 90s before moving onto Java prior to Objective C. When I started do

My timeline and experience is similar. Also, I started web development with Perl back in the 90s before moving onto Java prior to Objective C. When I started doing Objective C, it felt analogous to Perl 5 in some ways -- an OO language that let you peel back the covers to hack the internals when needed, mature frameworks, and an impressive community of knowledgeable graybeards. And the syntax, while powerful, is often accused of having a bit too much punctuation. :-) Now there are many more Objective C developers, which has also led to rapid improvements in the language and a blossoming of third party frameworks.