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.

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 ...

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.

Apple announced on Monday that it has developed a successor to its venerable Objective C with a language it's calling Swift. Providing a new language with "none of the baggage of C," Swift code ...

Computerworld India offers some help choosing which programming language to learn first, or next, from among the hundreds available.

Apple today announced a new programming language native to both OS X and iOS: Swift. Speaking at Apple’s annual developer conference, software engineering VP Craig Federighi called the new ...

These 11 programming languages now work with Kite's AI code-completion tool Beyond Python and JavaScript, Kite's tool now supports 13 languages and three more are due in weeks.

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 ...

According to Chris Lattner, director of Apple’s Developer Tools Department, the Swift programming language has only been in development since July 2010.

Kite, which suggests code snippets for developers in real time, today added support for 11 more programming languages, bringing its total to 13. In addition to Python and JavaScript, Kite’s AI ...