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1. Took a while to get used to but if you don't like pointers then yeah I understand.

2. In iOS (especially before the iPhone 4) memory management is one of the things that allows it to be as smooth as it. Adding GC overhead will eat up precious resources. On desktop this is usually masked by the absurd amounts of RAM most modern machines have.

3. Message-passing is one of the best things about Objective-C. You no longer have to perform null checks because if you structure you code correctly it will continue gracefully. The dynamic nature of Objective-C is what I love most about it.

4. I love the verbose syntax but that is a personal thing I guess. I love structuring my code and selector names so that everything almost reads like a paragraph of text.

I think we have to agree to disagree about Eclipse. I've been using it since University and I much prefer Xcode to Eclipse. To me Eclipse is the slow behemoth eating up my system memory.

I can understand the variable inspector. The GUI in Xcode is throwaway but once I got used to gdb I've grown to like it.

Xcode 4 crashed like crazy. It looks like they've finally stabilized it but I can't deny that the first 4 months after Xcode 4 was migraine inducing.