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.

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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.

#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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Interest in C#, a fading star in India, rose in the U.S., where searches also grew year-on-year for Apple’s programming languages Objective-C and Swift, which were in decline in India.