The end came for Objective-C in June of 2014, when Apple announced the debut of Swift, a new programming language for building native apps on all Apple products.

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.

SEE: Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn "In 2014 Apple announced the new programming language Swift to be the successor of Objective-C. At that moment ...

Objective-C is the object-oriented programming language used by developers for iOS. It had its start in 1983, the same year C++ was created. C++ proved far more popular over the years.

Objective-C, the language of the Apple world of iOS and the Mac, has overtaken C++ in a key index that measures the most popular programming languages in use today. The TIOBE programming community ...

Objective-C, used for developing Apple iOS applications, climbs to No. 6 in the monthly Tiobe Programming Community index for most popular programming languages, after being ranked at number 8 a ...

With plans to slowly retire the long-used Objective-C, Apple has introduced a new programming language, called Swift, for designing apps and applications to run on Apple iOS devices and Apple ...