I am an embedded developer by training, and have been doing it for my entire career. I've done C, Assembler, C++ and even python on some embedded devices, as w

I am an embedded developer by training, and have been doing it for my entire career. I've done C, Assembler, C++ and even python on some embedded devices, as well as the occasional javascript or shell scripts running the show. Objective C, hands down, is the least hellish language I've EVER done embedded development in. Would I take a python runtime on the iPhone? In a heartbeat. Barring that am I okay with Objective C: Oh hell yes. It has all the access you may want to C (libraries, certain operations), along with a bolted on smalltalkesque object system that is not overly templated (like java) or overly fiddly and easy to break (like C++) or just plain added on poorly (like lisp).