However, C# earned its election as programming language of the year due to its 1.8 percent growth during 2012, edging out C++ (1.1 percent) and Python (0.8 percent). ... "Objective-C programming has ...

C# among more popular programming languages for 2014. ... That may be expected, but it’s still nice to see C# grow by over 100%, although Objective-C submissions did increase by 300%.

The TIOBE Index, which ranks programming language popularity, has named Objective-C its language of the year for 2012, the second year in a row it has won.

The Tiobe index rating for C# grew nearly 2% in the past 12 months, while the rating for C fell by nearly the same amount. Microsoft’s C# programming language has seen a spike in popularity ...

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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.