Why does Apple use Objective-C for iPhone development? (App Store)

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Published on 2010-06-09T10:00:08Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 10:02 UTC
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I'm interested to know your opinion on why Apple uses a language such as Objective-C for app development. Does Apple's app store allow apps written only in this language? Does apple even look at your source-code or does it just care of the binary output?

I learned that most of their app rejection (in the app store) is based upon apps crashing (probably memory leaks in which Objective-c is not very efficient unless you use a GC).

Why not let developers use a safer language, like a scripting language?

I think these are important questions for a developer (I don't even use Apple's products) because it seems like Apple's app store is the MOST successful app sale place on the web.

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