[jawngee]

> Typically have to deal with two different kind of strings (NS versus C).

NSString has plenty of methods to deal with this, and you get boxing for free between CFString and NSString.

> The frameworks for those platforms are MEGA verbose.

Which some view as self documenting.

[Zev]

NSString has plenty of methods to deal with this, and you get boxing for free between CFString and NSString.

And that pesky char * that you get from C.

[famfam]

Hah, okay, make it 3 then. I was only thinking of NSString and char*.