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 ...

JavaScript has ascended to its highest position ever in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, while Objective-C is on a downward slope. The index, which gauges popularity based on formula ...

Developers started turning away from Objective-C years ago, thanks to the Swift language, Apple's replacement for Objective-C. But now that shift is finally being reflected in the Tiobe programming ...

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 ...