The TIOBE Index, which ranks programming language popularity, has named Objective-C its language of the year for 2012, the second year in a row it has won.

Six years after Apple introduced Swift as a replacement for Objective-C, the legacy language takes a big hit.

Objective-C has overtaken C++ to claim the third spot on the TIOBE index of popular programming languages, indicating that more and more developers are embracing mobile platforms and developing ...

It comes as no surprise that Swift, the language introduced by Apple a year ago, is the main culprit behind Objective-C’s demise. “The programming community embraced Swift because it fits the ...

The two programming languages do not really compete very much anymore, as the TIOBE index shows . C++ is used heavily in large high-performance systems whereas Objective-C is mainly used in the ...

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 ...

Apple's Swift has far-reaching effects on all platforms, not just iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. Learn why Swift matters, how to use the programming language and how it differs from Objective-C.

According to Coding Dojo's annual Top Programming Languages report, PHP hit an all-time low. Python continues to dominate the top position.

By far the more impactful news for solution providers was about Apple's Swift programming language, a new development environment that it says will be faster and easier to use than Objective-C.

Stack Overflow surveyed over 73,000 developers to find the highest-paying programming languages, including Clojure, Elixir, and Scala.