What is the state of non-Objective-C programming for iPhone?

Question

After spending three weeks learning Objective-C and Cocoa programming for my work, I\'ve been tasked with researching alternatives to it for iPhone development.

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Answer 1

I would suggest looking at using a hybrid solution.

Because of Objective-c's flexibility, you can implement your interface in Objective-c and your data model in almost anything else. You can practically draw the interface using Interface Builder so your actual coding in Objective-c is minimal. The real challenging parts of most serious applications are in the data model and that is where you are most likely to have legacy code or code from other projects.

As noted here by others, there are many libraries that allow you to glue almost any major language/API into Objective-c.