iOS app development powers Objective C to top the charts

Thirty years after its release, Objective C is still going strong. Software quality assessment company Tiobe’s Programming Language Award went to Objective C for the highest rise in market share in 2012. Objective C gained 3.37 percent this month from January 2012, according to Tiobe. C++ gained 1.09 percent year-on-year and Python 0.96 percent, while C# lost 2.57 percent and Delphi 0.65 percent. Objective C won the award for the second year in a row.  Objective C is the main programming language for OS X and iOS, Apple’s operating systems for desktops and mobile phones respectively and also their APIs. Tiobe attributes the rise in the market share of Objective C to the growing development of mobile applications. Objective C was ranked 45 in the index in 2008, the year in which the iPhone started supporting apps. With the spate of iOS app development, the language was ranked at position three in Jan 2012.Click here for full story