HomeAbout Switching from scripting languages to Objective C and iPhone: useful libraries January 26th, 2009  |  Published in iphone  |  2 Comments For the last few months I’ve been spending much of my spare hacking time learning to code iPhone applications. I’ve found Objective C to be a surprisingly pleasant language, and Cocoa is one of the best frameworks I’ve ever worked with. I’ve reached a point where I feel I can go fairly quickly from simple app ideas to sketching in real code. I’m a web developer at heart, and a scripting language user by preference. Coding for the iPhone doesn’t feel as fluid in text handling or HTTP access as the environments I’m used to. Fortunately I’ve been able to find some fantastic open-source libraries and wrappers that make up the difference. Here are my favourites so far: GTMHTTPFetcher from Google Toolbox for Mac The iPhone’s native HTTP handling is capable, but low-level and verbose. Rather than handling the many callbacks, NSData objects and