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I personally find lower level programing to be frustrating and difficult. I've built an amazing career with JavaScript and C# primarily. My hobbyist projects use C# , JS and Flutter.

I can't wrap my head around things like pointers or memory management

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post-ARC, Objective-C and Swift aren't very different in terms of memory management. retain and release are handled for you, and you only need to worry about retain cycles. structs in Swift change things a bit, but not that much

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With swift & obj-c your coding against the same library APIs, so in many ways it's a very similar level of programming. In many ways swift is far more complicated than Obj-C. With Obj-C iOS apps your not really writing that much C vs. the pseudo-smalltalk attachment to it.

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