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Quick question to you guys and gals,

I really want to become an iOS app developer. I know it would be long and painful way to learn Objective-C (some say it looks like alien language compared to C). Swift is rather new, much easier to learn, but I know Objective-C is a must to be considered as true iOS dev.

The question is: is there such a need of iOS developers (I mean UK/Canada/US/Germany)?. I live in Poland and there's not much to do in iOS development (few job offers, everybody is hyped by JS and frameworks changing every year, some offers are often underpayed remote work for foreign clients). I am now 20 years old, still learning at Uni and not having any responsibilities, so I may go someday to UK for a year or two, since the market for iOS devs is more diversed and bigger than in Poland. I know I am complaining (most Poles do that), but I've learned English since I was 4 and it's a pity not to use it as a resource to get a better job offer than in my mother country.

Thanks for all the responses, especially from people working as iOS devs

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    honest advice, try both and do what you love. don't try to be "proper iOS Dev"
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    it may be a rant but don't be a <insert the buzzword> language developer. be a real world problem solver.
    it is not difficult to switch language to suite the problem and in the end language/ platform don't matter.
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    @apsa You're right, that's why I study at Uni, to learn algorithms, data structures and other basics of Computer Science. But at some point you have to choose because you can't learn all the technologies available. You can't for example learn all JS frameworks, since there are few more after I end writing. Choosing the path that suits me best and like doing it is Mobile development. I made some basic Android app but tbh I don't like java.
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