Right from the beginning, Objective-C and C++ competed to become the de facto object-oriented programming language, TIOBE said. It took quite some years before C++ could claim victory.

SEE: Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn "In 2014 Apple announced the new programming language Swift to be the successor of Objective-C.

The award is given to the programming language that gained most market share in 2012. According to TIOBE, the market share of Objective-C is 3.37 percent higher than it was in January 2012.

Objective-C is now more popular than C++, showing proof that mobile development is surging ahead as we enter the post-PC era. Objective-C is the object oriented programming language used by ...

But Objective-C is 30 years old. And after several years in development, Apple has revealed its successor to work alongside the aging veteran and transition to a more modern language that's ...

The alternative PyPL Popularity of Programming Language Index, which analyzes how often language tutorials are searched on in Google, has Objective-C ranked in eighth place this month, with a 5.5 ...

At its WWDC event on Monday, Apple made waves among the iOS and Mac developer communities with the announcement of Swift, a new programming language designed from the ground up by the company's ...

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 ...

Apple's open-source Swift has just broken into the top 10 programming languages, according to a quarterly ranking, in the process supplanting its predecessor on Apple platforms, Objective-C.