I like Objective-C a lot, but there are things that could use some work, and I think a lot of issues stem from its C roots. Garbage collection, while a great ad

I like Objective-C a lot, but there are things that could use some work, and I think a lot of issues stem from its C roots. Garbage collection, while a great addition, is not entirely seamless to use. Blocks, because of the fact that they're a C feature and not an Objective-C feature, are verbose and complicated to define. The ton of boilerplate code required is also a bit painful. All that said, I wouldn't switch to using any other language with Cocoa because the APIs are natural to Objective-C and they feel quite clunky when used in another language. MacRuby, and particularly HotCocoa, are interesting, but again, there's a re-learning curve involved.