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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.

Apple has a lot of open source efforts, but none as big or important as Swift. In announcing Swift as an open source project at WWDC earlier this year, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Craig ...

I'm teaching myself Mac OS X programming, and have decided to write all new Mac code in Objective-C using Cocoa. However, I have a very large library of C++ classes that I do not want to port to ...

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 ...

It’s high time to make the switch to the more approachable, full-featured Swift for iOS and OS X app dev Programming languages don’t die easily, but development shops that cling to fading paradigms do ...

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 ...

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 ...