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    <p>Personally I think you'll have a better time just learning Objective-C.</p> <p>In short:</p> <ul> <li>"Learning Objective-C" is not a daunting as you might think, you may even enjoy it after just the first few weeks</li> <li>You are already familiar with the "C style" syntax with lots of *&amp;(){}; everywhere</li> <li>Apple has done a very good job of documenting things</li> <li>You'll be interacting with the iPhone the way Apple intended, which means you'll get the benefits directly from the source not through some filter.</li> </ul> <p>I have found that the projects like Unity and MonoTouch are supposed to "save you time" but ultimately you'll need to learn their domain specific language anyway and will have to side-step things at times. All that is probably going to take you just as long as it would to learn the language you were trying to avoid learning (in calendar time). In the end you didn't save any time and you are tightly coupled to some product.</p> <p>EDIT: I never meant to imply anything negative about .NET I happen to be a big fan of it. My point is that adding more layers of complexity just because you aren't yet comfortable with the quirky objc bracket notation doesn't really make much sense to me. </p>
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    1. COFirst off, C# is *not* a "domain specific language" - far from it. It's a commodity skill. That's part of the value of MonoTouch. It could be argued (unfairly and inaccurately) that ObjC is a DSL in that most devs (outside finance and university labs and basements) will only ever use it for OS X or iPhone development. But it isn't. Like C#, it's a versatile language that basically exists to let you focus on frameworks rather than the language itself (I think we agree there). But keep in mind that your *ObjC* code will break with Apple updates. That's not an MT specific issue.
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    2. COMT could even save you in some cases *because* there's this layer of abstraction. Apple modifies an API? Well, your ObjC app *and* your (let's pretend it exists) equivalent MT app will break. The MT guys could release a stopgap solution to modify how the MonoTouch API handles the call behind the scenes. Your MT code wouldn't have to change - you could just rebuild against the stopgap MT release. Yes: this is a *dirty* fix that could easily lead to problems, but properly deprecating the stopgap MT API would give devs time to handle the change seamlessly *and* buy time for a *real* fix.
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    3. COPlus, new as MT is, it just got a lot easier to create your own bindings if necessary (MT 1.2). You're not completely dependent on the MT peeps to do all that work (though they *are* doing that work), and never were. They have dead-simple ways of creating bindings. They expose enough of the ObjC runtime with the MT frameworks that you're not locked into their way of doing things. I've reimplemented bindings just to see if I like my way better. You can ignore the MT frameworks and send and receive messages "manually" if you want, and it takes little code. They're smart people. Trust them :)
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