Tiobe language index cites the rise of Swift as the main reason for Objective-C's decline Interest in the Objective-C language has taken a nosedive thanks to developers ramping up on Apple’s ...

JavaScript has ascended to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, while Objective-C is on a downward slope. The index, which gauges popularity based on ...

Six years after Apple introduced Swift as a replacement for Objective-C, the legacy language takes a big hit.

Jesper anticipates something to surpass Objective-C at a future point in time, most likely with the next major update of OS X. It is my belief that Apple is definitely working on a new language to ...

In part one of the series, I put forward my thesis: that the Objective-C language and the Cocoa API are the parts of Mac OS X that are the most in danger of falling behind the competition, and ...

Work on Swift—Apple's surprise new programming language unveiled at WWDC—started development four years ago in conjunction with efforts to keep Objective C relevant. Swift now aims to quickly ...