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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Apple opened the App Store in 2008, it began a revolution that would lead to the largest and most vibrant mobile apps ecosystem in existence. It should then come as no surprise that Objective-C, ...

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it’s calling Swift. Providing a new language with “none of the baggage of C,” Swift code can ...

According to the TIOBE Index, Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object-oriented ...