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.

Six years after Apple introduced Swift as a replacement for Objective-C, the legacy language takes a big hit. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 5, 2020, 4:03 a.m. PT ...

#9: Objective-C A collection of seashells. Joan Slatkin/Getty Images Objective-C is the primary programming language used for writing applications for Apple's operating systems MacOS and iOS.

Objective-C is based on the C programming language and is used to build OS X and iOS operating systems and apps. It was developed originally by Brad Cox and Tom Love in the 1980s and used for NeXT ...