Fair point. I focused a bit too much on the framework itself, but I was really trying to address the 'intimidating' nature of objective-c (as it relates to getting things done in iOS). Certainly I can appreciate the verbosity in comparison and I know where RubyMotion has it's place. Just saying for the folks that are intimidated by objective-c (and have yet to give it a shot): try not to be!

My intimidation doesn't come from the difficulty of Objective-C but 1) The time it takes to build iOS apps using Objective-C and 2) verboseness. I explained above that I think it would take twice as long to build the same app in Objective-C and that thought intimidates me as for most of us the apps we're building are experiments. We don't know if it will catch on or not. And I would like to see results as quickly as possible, especially in a bootstrapped project like this.