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He lost me with his "Objective-C ...has evolved over the past two years to become an "easier" language ... "

I would argue that it has less to do with the ease of the language and instead the market effects of iOS.

I think you might've misinterpreted what I meant? I didn't mean to imply anything about the growth of iOS or that ObjC being just perceived as an easier language because of the growth. I trying to say that Objective-C was really criticized for its verbosity and forcing manual memory management, and Apple has made changes in direct response to those with ARC and more concise literals, which IMO makes it "easier" (espc. wrt ARC)

Also @property — first you had to declare variables and use @synthesize, then you could omit the declaration part, and no you can omit the declaration and @synthesize, @property alone is enough.

It's true. Honestly, Objective-C in its current state is far easier to pick up than JavaScript, which only gained popularity due to the market effects of browsers.

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