Why Bother with Objective C?

Given the tools out there for writing iOS apps in HTML, Jquery, C#, Ruby, etc, including some with generate apps that can run on both Android and iOS,
why bother writing in Objective C?
What are the advantages?
thx

red_menace wrote:
RubyMotion is not a bridge or an interpreter or a wrapper, it is built directly on top of the Objective-C run time, so there isn't really a downside if Ruby is your thing.
Interesting. Do you know of any similar projects with different languages? RubyMotion looks cool, but only if, as you say, "Ruby is your thing". For me, it is just another syntax. Objective-C is just C with a few "@" characters and a lot of "[]", so why bother? Now if there was a Perl front-end, that would be interesting.
I found the following list of LLVM front-ends:
Here is a tutorial on building your own: http://gnuu.org/2009/09/18/writing-your-own-toy-compiler/
LLVM Projects page has more information: http://llvm.org/ProjectsWithLLVM/
Now, where am I going to find a BNF for Perl
PS: Yes, I know about CamelBones. Unfortunately, both the project and its author are no more.
But to get back to the question of why bother with Objective-C, the answer is clearly the Objective-C runtime. It doesn't turn C into Perl, but it comes quite close. It comes so close that it really isn't worth ones time to bother with Objective-Perl.

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