1. It's verbose for sure, but why be limited to 80 columns? My screen can show 240 columns, so even showing two files at once, there's 120 columns to play with.
2. Do you actually experience bugs which would be caught by generics? I'd say that most of the time, generics are just a way to add purposeless abstraction without any tangible benefit.
3. Xcode is still terrible, but 4.2 is an improvement over 3.2 at least. Code completion is much better than 3.x.
4. In my eight years of writing ObjC, I have not encountered one single namespace conflict.
5. Agreed, separate interface/implementation files are a historical artefact, and I'd love to see them go. But that's the price of compatibility with C (which is extremely useful).
2. Do you actually experience bugs which would be caught by generics? I'd say that most of the time, generics are just a way to add purposeless abstraction without any tangible benefit.
3. Xcode is still terrible, but 4.2 is an improvement over 3.2 at least. Code completion is much better than 3.x.
4. In my eight years of writing ObjC, I have not encountered one single namespace conflict.
5. Agreed, separate interface/implementation files are a historical artefact, and I'd love to see them go. But that's the price of compatibility with C (which is extremely useful).