Developers started turning away from Objective-C years ago, thanks to the Swift language, Apple's replacement for Objective-C. But now that shift is finally being reflected in the Tiobe programming ...

Objective-C, the programming language superseded by Apple's Swift for iOS and macOS app development, has finally dropped off the top 20 most popular languages, according to the April 2021 edition of ...

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...

The first commercial object-oriented version of the C programming language. Objective-C was used to write macOS and iOS (iPhone/iPad) applications prior to Apple's adoption of the Swift language.

Apple’s new Swift programming language is being adopted even faster than anyone predicted. In the latest TIOBE Index, which ranks the popularity of programming languages, Apple shot up from the 14th ...

Newer languages might soak up all the glory, but these die-hard languages have their place. Here are eight languages ...

Objective-C, best known as the programming language used for building applications to run on Apple’s popular iPad and iPhone devices, is beginning to level off in popularity, one monthly assessment of ...

From Reddit threads to roundtable events, debating the merits of programming languages is not a new phenomenon. And while much of the recent discourse has centered around AI’s impact and whether or ...

I looked at the TIOBE index today, as I do every so often, as most of the software pros I know do every so often. It purports to measure the popularity of the world’s programming languages, and its ...

Apple's open-source Swift has just broken into the top 10 programming languages, according to a quarterly ranking, in the process supplanting its predecessor on Apple platforms, Objective-C. The top ...