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Interest in the Objective-C language has taken a nosedive thanks to developers ramping up on Apple’s successor, the Swift language, according to this month’s Tiobe index of language popularity. Based ...

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 ...

Wil Shipley, a developer whose association with Apple began with a contract for NeXT, has posted two tweets in praise of Swift shortly after Apple’s “significant update” to the programming language.

Apple's new Swift programming language continued its assault on the venerable Objective-C, inexorably marching -- as the company planned -- to become the defacto standard for iOS and Mac development, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Thanks to the popularity of Apple’s iPad and iPhone mobile devices, the Objective-C language has overtaken C++ in Tiobe Software’s monthly assessment of programming language popularity ...

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 ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 provides the new programmer a complete, step-by-step introduction to the Objective-C language. The book does not assume previous experience with either ...

Apple may be planning to surpass Objective-C with a modern alternative to supplement Cocoa. Jesper anticipates something to surpass Objective-C at a future point in time, most likely with the next ...