Apple's Swift is instant hit among top programming languages
Apple's new Swift language, featuring modern-day development capabilities for building OS X and iOS applications, is likely to find swift, high placement in assessments of programming language popularity.
Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes already have plans to accommodate Swift. "A preview shows that its first rating will probably in the top 20 by [the July Tiobe index]. Swift is a natural and long-awaited next step of Apple," this month's Tiobe index description said. The monthly index, which gauges language popularity via a formula assessing searches on languages on sites like Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, has shown Swift's predecessor, the Objective-C language, ranking not far behind C and Java in language popularity in recent years.
Tiobe Managing Director Paul Janssen expands on Swift: "Objective-C is a small abstraction layer on top of C." He adds, "Swift is a modern programming language that has adopted all the goodies of other popular languages such as automated memory management, script-like syntax and type inference." But with Swift, Apple is trying to catch up with Java and C#, he said.
