Swift is poised to take over iOS development as Objective C tanks in popularity

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by Sindy Cator on October 16, 2015 at 5:53 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

It was bound to happen anyway, but Swift is supplanting Objective C as the de facto language for iOS development a lot faster than anyone expected. In TIOBE’s latest index — which measures the popularity of programming languages — Objective C saw a sharp decline year-over-year. October 2014 saw Objective C as the third most popular language. This year, it’s #14 on the list. Just behind it is Swift, which went from #19 to #15 in the same timeframe. Swift’s rise isn’t the story — Objective C’s decline is. TIOBE reports it’s slumped 8.68 percent, the largest swing (positive or…