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?

Comments

Re:Pretty quickly

[SuperKendall]

Well, Swift should be cross-platform pretty shortly since they are releasing it as open source (including standard libraries) in a month or two.

Objective-C was more cross-platform than you might think, people have used it for server development in the past. Even now it's used for both really popular desktop and mobile apps, which a decent range.

Re:More of an issue about how bad Objective-C is

[Anonymous Coward]

You realise that Apple already announced that the Swift compiler is going to be ported to linux and made open source, right?