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And seems to be growing? I'm not close to this space, but it feels like Objective-C should be decreasing. I'd be curious to know why it's increasing.


Apple is all in on Swift. Everything is Swift first, with some new things Swift only.

You can still call new Swift only APIs from Obj-C, but you’ll have to write your own glue layer.


From the article:

> Again please note that a single binary can be counted multiple times, so the sum of the binaries in this graph is greater than the total number of binaries

So even if a binary only uses a small shim of Objective-C, it'll still count towards the Objective-C number.




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