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I get the impression most developers use Objective-C because they have to, rather than because they want to. Take a look at the Tiobe graph for Objective-C:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Objective-C.ht...

I have a feeling it would see a distinct dropoff in usage if Apple were to change their focus to, say, Java or C++.

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It's my favorite C variant (including C itself).

I agree. It is exactly what the name implies: a somewhat minimal object orientation layer on top of C.

I wouldn't say the same thing about Cocoa though. Cocoa is good, but not great.

And I'm not without my criticisms of ObjC. I can't stand the lack of namespaces, for instance.

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