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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by stevoski on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:06AM (#6905984)
> If you want strong typing, use a strongly-typed language.

Unfortunately in iOS development, we don't have a good alternative to ObjC.

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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by drewcrawford on Saturday December 14, 2013 @12:03PM (#6906204)
Well good is debatable but arguably C++ meets this criteria. I work on many iOS codebases that have C++ layers.
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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by Moto7451 on Saturday December 14, 2013 @01:03PM (#6906408)
There's RubyMotion for the Ruby crowd as well. You can use Java as well (though possibly just for Games): http://www.robovm.org
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Re:A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C by mikeblue on Saturday December 14, 2013 @11:18AM (#6906029)
sure you do, Xamarin.iOS.
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