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> - The verbosity can be annoying at first, but it forces you to think hard about everything, and when I come back to Objective-C code years later, I've no issue remembering what the hell I was doing there

This this this. I love how it forces the verbosity. It makes it so easy to understand.

> - People complain about brackets, but they just... don't matter. It's a syntax. You either deal with it or don't - you don't see me writing Lisp because I find the syntax annoying, which is fine.

I really don't mind the brackets. If you structure your code right, is not even that big of a deal.

> - Message passing in ObjC is so optimized that it probably can't get much faster, and anyone acting like it's slow has a potentially skewed understanding of this

Not just this, but I love how you can send messages to nil and it doesn't crash, or you can define a method in code and it runs.