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 ...

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

Developers who build iOS applications have access to a wealth of tools, frameworks and libraries. However, when it comes to languages, many still find themselves stuck with choosing between two ...

The trend should be of interest to Apple watchers, as it suggests significant changes both in how developers are approaching the platform and in what our expectations of future application development ...