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Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com)
Nerval's Lobster writes: When Apple rolled out Swift last summer, it expected its new programming language to eventually replace Objective-C, which developers have used for years to build iOS and Mac OS X apps. Thanks to Apple's huge developer ecosystem (and equally massive footprint in the world of consumer devices), Swift quickly became one of the most buzzed-about programming languages, as cited by sites such as Stack Overflow. And now, according to new data from TIOBE Software, which keeps a regularly updated index of popular programming languages, Swift might be seriously cannibalizing Objective-C. On TIOBE's latest index, Objective-C is ranked fourteenth among programming languages, a considerable drop from its third-place spot in October 2014. Swift managed to climb from nineteenth to fifteenth during the same period. "Soon after Apple announced to switch from Objective-C to Swift, Objective-C went into free fall," read TIOBE's text accompanying the data. "This month Objective-C dropped out of the TIOBE index top 10." How soon until Swift eclipses Objective-C entirely?
I just finished a Flash animation course at ITT. Am I too late to the game?
Trolling is a art,
"How soon until Swift eclipses Objective-C entirely?"
I'm guessing swiftly.
Let me know when I can actually download and build a Swift compiler on something other than OS X, and I'll take a look at the language. Until then I'm not interested. And I'm a Mac user.
(On an unrelated note, who the fuck thought it was a good idea to use the Exit icon to indicate logging in to Slashdot?)
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Let me know when they catch up with c.
Oh, wait. They never will. Because garbage collection. There's nothing so ultimately fabulous as the executable deciding to take a nice vacation in the middle of something you didn't want it to.
So never mind.
Yeah, can't really avoid that when you set out to emulate a Microsoft product...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
More than that, looking at the graph, the trend for most of languages is down. So it looks like developers are fleeing to something else than programming.
Sun controls Java.
Hi there, Mr van Winkle!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Apple fragmented its ecosystem. It will stay in history as its dumb move of the '10s
Because Apple have probably 100 of millions of objc loc, so hurting the ecosystem that provides the developers that maintain your own codebase is rarely seen as a bright move. Quality of software Apple products is already falling down, showing a rotting codebase+weak maintenance. Of course, with android beeing fragmented with uncertain java future, microsoft being schizo with winrt, win32, c#, managed langs and native, it may not matter that much, but they killed one of their key advantage, an unified platform.