As a software development organization, IBM said it is looking at three primary programming languages/development environments for enterprise use going forward: Java, Node.js and Swift.

First, Swift looks easy to learn — at least, it looks that way to me (full disclosure: I’ve learned and worked with lots of programming languages over the decades — this isn’t my first rodeo either).

Even the White House has recommended that programmers move to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust, Go, C#, Java, Swift, Python, and JavaScript to reduce “vulnerabilities at scale ...

But now Swift is actually slipping in popularity, according the latest Tiobe index. “Until recently, it was quite common to program Android apps in Java and iOS apps in Swift/Objective-C ...

Objective-C, the programming language superseded by Apple's Swift for iOS and macOS app development, has finally dropped off the top 20 most popular languages, according to the April 2021 edition ...

IEEE Spectrum's latest ranking of the hottest programming languages puts Python ... Filling out the top 10 in descending order were C++, Java, C, Swift, C#, JavaScriipt, HTML, Ruby, and Go.

ideas from functional programming, and other enhancements over Java. Unlike the Swift programming language, which was an internal Apple project and then open sourced later, Google won’t own Kotlin.

To make things more complicated both low level APIs – some of which use C++, which Swift cannot bridge to – and higher, Java APIs would have to be rewritten. In effect, Google would need to ...