Swift Has a Huge Gaming Problem, But Study Shows It’s Widely Used Nate Swanner, March 7, 2019 6 min read Swift, the language developed at Apple and released in 2014, is nearing version 5 – and a level of settled-in...
Swift Was Almost Named ‘Shiny,’ Ditched Objective-C for Memory Safety Nate Swanner, February 22, 2019 6 min read Apple’s self-started programming language, Swift, was originally named ‘Shiny.’ No, really. This isn’t a...
Older Programming Languages Refuse to Die: RedMonk Nick Kolakowski, September 6, 2018 3 min read Older programming languages refuse to die. That’s the conclusion you could draw from analyst firm RedMonk’s...
5 Programming Languages Doomed to Extinction Nick Kolakowski, August 21, 2018 8 min read It’s the programming equivalent of the circle of life: programming languages are created, gain popularity, hit their...
Kotlin, Swift Battle Older Languages for Adoption: RedMonk Nick Kolakowski, August 15, 2018 3 min read A number of analyst firms rank programming languages by popularity, and the top tiers of those rankings stay pretty...
What’s the Average iOS Developer Salary? Nick Kolakowski, July 3, 2018 3 min read In the 11 years since the iPhone revolutionized mobile technology, many thousands of developers have made a living...
iOS Developer Résumé: Skills and Experience to Include Nick Kolakowski, June 4, 2018 4 min read So you’re trying to write an iOS developer résumé, and you have no idea where to start. We have two words for...
iOS Developer Interview Questions: Mastering the Trickier Ones Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson, May 22, 2018 8 min read More than a decade after the launch of the original iPhone, iOS is now a mature development environment. Thousands of...
How Much Do Mobile Application Developers Get Paid? Nick Kolakowski, April 25, 2018 3 min read The world is mobile these days. If you don’t believe that, take a look at your website’s analytics: chances are...
RedMonk Calls Out Kotlin, Swift, Rust in Latest Languages Ranking Nick Kolakowski, March 12, 2018 3 min read RedMonk’s latest programming-language rankings offer few surprises (or changes) from its previous update in mid-2017:...
