When Apple opened the App Store in 2008, it began a revolution that would lead to the largest and most vibrant mobile apps ecosystem in existence. It should then come as no surprise that Objective-C, ...

When the App Store first launched, building for Apple meant learning Objective-C, wrestling with Apple's limited ...

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 ...

Recently while procrastinating at work I've been teaching myself Objective-C and Cocoa programming (I'm a C++ and Fortran programmer in my day job). I've gone through the Hillegass book ("Cocoa ...

Developers who build iOS applications have access to a wealth of tools, frameworks and libraries. However, when it comes to languages, many still find themselves stuck with choosing between two ...

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The biggest reaction from the crowd at WWDC today wasn’t for a shiny new product or even a cool new app. Instead, the news that Apple was introducing its own programming language, Swift, got a ...