How is the market opportunity for objective-C

Question

I am a software testing automation engineer. How is the market for objective-C. I am assessing different technologies and languages to learn and later shift into. How are the oppurtunities for objective-C and what is the best way to get into it ?

Answer 1

Opportunities seem to be growing, iPhone and Apple seem to attract people. Howerver you better stick to Mac OS X or iPhone development. The state of tools outside of Apples tools is hardly arguable sad. Sure there exists GNUstep, but try it out yourself and you'll see what I mean. Objective-C is near non existant on the Windows platfrom. There are but two larger applications outside the Mac world that's Etoile http://etoileos.com/etoile/

and opengroupware http://www.opengroupware.org/en/index.html

But getting both up and running is a hard job.

The debugger support for Objective C outside the Macs tools is extremly bad also and you hardly can find an IDE worth it's name. So the best way to go is surely get some Mac and start writing software there. IMHO

Regards Friedrich