![]() In short, Swift has become a more attractive tool for use in some projects (particularly for those building solutions they hope to release across all Apple platforms in the years to come). Now, I think it possible that the Swift’s growth reflects Apple’s quiet move toward a develop-once, use-anywhere approach. Catalyst, after all, lets developers more easily port apps from iPad to iPhone, or iPad to Mac, and while it’s not a perfect solution, it is seeing more adoption. The other 10% was consumed by other programming languages that appeared to be compilable for multiple mobile platforms,” the report continues. ![]() Surprisingly, Swift grew from 1% to only 2% at that same time. "After the announcement Objective-C dropped from 12% market share in 2014 to 1% market share in 2016. At that moment Objective-C was at position number three in the Tiobe index, and development of mobile apps for iPhones and iPads was booming," Tiobe explains. “In 2014 Apple announced the new programming language Swift to be the successor of Objective-C. ![]() Java, C, Python and C++ remain the top languages, of course, but Swift has now climbed 10 places to become the 10th most popular programming language, according to the Tiobe report, with Objective C falling from 10th to 20th position. ![]()
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