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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to a recent study, iPhone and iPad app development has a bigger learning than curve than any other mobile platform. It also costs developers more in terms of time and expenses to develop an ...

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, ...

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.

Most of the headlines from Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2014 last week were about iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite (v10.10), both on tap for this fall. By far the more impactful news for solution ...

To navigate the world of mobile app development, one needs to make smart choices, especially when selecting the right programming language and development team. Swift has grown popular, though ...