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Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise (dice.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the java-takes-back-the-crown dept.

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?

6 of 161 comments (clear)

  1. Huh? by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I just finished a Flash animation course at ITT. Am I too late to the game?

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  2. How soon? by SensitiveMale · · Score: 4, Funny

    "How soon until Swift eclipses Objective-C entirely?"

    I'm guessing swiftly.

    1. Re:How soon? by fyngyrz · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm guessing swiftly.

      I don't think you're being objective about this.

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  3. consider garbage collection is garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Pretty quickly by jcr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, can't really avoid that when you set out to emulate a Microsoft product...

    -jcr

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  5. Re:Not proprietary by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun controls Java.

    Hi there, Mr van Winkle!

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