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The first commercial object-oriented version of the C programming language. Objective-C was used to write macOS and iOS (iPhone/iPad) applications prior to Apple's adoption of the Swift language.

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When Apple opened the App Store in 2008, it began a revolution that would lead to the largest and most vibrant mobile apps ecosystem in existence. It should then come as no surprise that Objective-C, ...

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 ...

Longtime staple of development for Apple platforms slides out of the top 20 in Tiobe Index of programming language popularity. Objective-C, which has been a staple of software development for Apple ...

Developers still value Apple's now-legacy language for iOS and Mac app dev, and the transition Swift will be gradual Objective-C may no longer be the stylish language choice for Apple iOS and Mac OS ...

The trend should be of interest to Apple watchers, as it suggests significant changes both in how developers are approaching the platform and in what our expectations of future application development ...

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 ...