It's not the language that's verbose, it's the Cocoa libraries.

Instead of this:

  NSString *s2 = [s1 stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8Encoding];

You could easily have:

  NSString *s2 = [s1 percentEscapes:UTF8];

(I like the first way better, though. It reads like an English sentence, and you know exactly what the arguments are.)

EDIT: formatting.

Good point, but Objective J seems to have borrowed that as well.

i.e.

  [CPApp sendEvent:[CPEvent mouseEventWithType:CPLeftMouseDown location:[theWindow convertBridgeToBase:CGPointMake(x, y)]

or

  [CPApp setTarget:self selector:@selector(disposeOfEvent:) forNextEventMatchingMask:CPLeftMouseUpMask untilDate:nil inMode:nil dequeue:YES];

It's not that I don't applaud the creation of Objective-J, because I do. I think it's a big step towards the next generation of in-browser applications.

To the 280 guys: I'm not trying to insult you or your hard work, and I'm sorry if it came off like that. All I'm saying is that you're going to have a harder time making this a new web standard because of this design fact. It certainly won't deter me, but it will definitely deter others.