I got so caught up in defending my chocolate honor that I neglected to say: great article! I think the point that ObjC is closest to Cocoa is important, and may indeed prevent any abandonment of ObjC by people who are already comfortable with it.

I had forgotten how ugly the "distributed selector name" -> procedural function name mapping can be. Which I shouldn't have forgotten so quickly, since I just ported a Cocoa Java app that was full of them.