2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C

mikejuk writes "Every January, it is traditional to compare the state of programming language usage as indicated by the TIOBE index. So what's up and what's down this year? The top language is still Java, but it's slowly falling in the percentages. Objective-C experienced the most growth, followed by C# and C. JavaScript climbed back into the top 10, displacing Ruby. Python and PHP experienced the biggest drops. If you like outside runners, then cheer for Lua and R, which have just entered the top 20. However, I have to wonder why Logo is in the top 20 as well. I know programming education is becoming important, but Logo?"

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Re:Objective C

[beelsebob]

Which stops being funny when you discover that Apple used GCC for their compiler (they've since replaced it with closed proprietary shit), and never bothered to contribute their version of Objective-C back.

Uhh actually, they did – the gcc dev team decided they didn't want the patches. Because of that, combined with gcc's license, it's slowness, it's mass of spaghetti code and various other reasons, apple dumped gcc. They then went out and wrote clang, and then open sourced in under a more permissive license than gcc is licensed. Oh, along with their entire Objective-C runtime implementation. The only reason you struggled with GNUstep is because you tried to use a crappy compiler who's dev team actively fought against being made better by apple. Use clang and libobjc2 and you're golden.

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[flyingfsck]

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