![]() ![]() This index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google. The creators of the PYPL Popularity Index say, “The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. What we’d like to point out at this point is that we should not be blindly looking at numbers, but instead try to understand where those numbers come from. In 2023, both Swift and Objective-C get a similar share of Google searches, though the newer language is somewhat more popular (2.28 % for Swift vs. The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are sought on Google. 292.479) and number of questions asked per week (481 vs. On StackOverflow, the library of knowledge for all developers, Swift has overtaken Objective-C in both total questions asked (316.604 vs. The statistics are pretty self-explanatory. When looking at number of developers skilled either in Swift or Objective-C (or both), we managed to find some statistics from JetBrains (2021) showing that out of all developers participating in their survey, 76% of developers are skilled in Swift, 13% are skilled both in Swift and Objective-C, whereas 11% are only skilled in Objective-C. Which means that more than 75% of developers working with the language dread working with it! Nevertheless, in the newest Stack Overflow survey, turns out ~63% of people loved working with Swift, while only 23% of people said the same about Objective-C. Don’t get us wrong, probably if you look hard enough, you’ll still find demand for Objective-C development (probably maintenance is a more suited word here). Looking at some statistics from the StackOverflow 2021 survey, we see that 5.1% of respondents use Swift, whereas 2.8% use Objective-C, making it an approximate 2:1 ratio. There are a lot of indicators telling us there’s still a ton of legacy Objective-C code, both from Apple and from other developers, that’s still in use. Furthermore, Objective-C is a piece of art, creators packed genius solutions and were constantly improving it, so us developers were able to use it at our advantage. We’d like to point out that our developers mostly loved programming in Objective-C and still love it for its power to deliver products. We know our initial thoughts are rather harsh towards Objective-C. After giving it some thought, however, we can’t come up with an edge case that would make the decision leaning toward using Objective-C for iOS mobile application development.ĭisclaimer: we’re assuming you are a company that doesn’t only hire developers with Objective-C knowledge at their disposal. Sure, developers may deliver apps or libraries regardless of whether the chosen language is Swift or Objective-C. There’s a good chance going with Swift would yield quicker results. It’s probably easy to say that whatever end goal you would want to achieve with Objective-C you can achieve it with as well with Swift.
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