I don't think mere MVC(in the general sense) implementation will do the trick. T...

randomdata · on Sept 15, 2012

> 3. Uses statically Typed Languages

Objective-C is kind of an odd duck there. I think for all intents and purposes, Objective-C can be treated as a duck-typed language and shares many of the same conventions as Ruby, given their shared Smalltalk heritage. Consider the following code:

  NSString *string = [NSArray arrayWithObject:@1];
  [string isKindOfClass:NSArray.class]; // Returns true

Which compiles and runs just as you would expect the equivalent Ruby code to:

  string = [ 1 ]
  string.kind_of?(Array) # Returns true

I would even argue that Cocoa (Touch) shares many similarities to Rails. Someone coming from a Ruby on Rails background should feel right at home on iOS, though perhaps less so on other platforms.