Thanks for finally sticking up for Objective-C. I still think it's an awesome language and close to Smalltalk-80 syntactically; everything is a [message]. With Xcode editor, it really is easy to interface to anything with command completion, inline compiling, etc. Since it's C based, the ? was supported way before Swift, and null values are meaningful.

As for easy or not, my small Swift coding has been challenging (and I've coded in every language).

I'm sticking with solid Objective-C and I don't mind what others call a non modern syntax.