title: MonoTouch v. Objective-C for new iPhone devs
body: <p>I'm working with a small startup with the goal of creating an iPhone application. The programmers on our team all know both C and Java, but we've got no ObjC/C#/iPhone experience -- we'll be learning something no matter what. All the questions I've seen on this subject have been from the perspective of a C# programmer getting into iOS, so I don't have any information on the relative merits of learning one or the other.</p>
  
  <p>So, what I want to know is the relative merits of C# and Objective-C for new programmers, with respect to these things:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Performance</li>
  <li>Ease of use</li>
  <li>Ease of learning</li>
  <li>Reliability (i.e., will a new iOS version break a MonoTouch app?)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Also, would writing in MonoTouch have any benefits for cross-platform development with Android?</p>