Is swift now regarded as the preferred option over Objective-C on iOS?
Im not sure if there’s any concrete data public but just curious
Im not sure if there’s any concrete data public but just curious
At WWDC19, Craig mentioned in the keynote that there were over 450,000 apps using Swift.
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And a quick search seems to imply there are roughly 2mil apps on the app store. I’d say that paints a bit of a picture of 25%, not factoring in the new app to old ratios
I dabble with various programming languages just for fun. As one datapoint, when I tried to build a Swift app a few years ago, there were still some APIs that I needed that needed me to go into Objective-C. A few months ago, when I tried again, I was able to fully build my app using just Swift without having to write any Objective-C. From a language capabilities point of view, Swift has definitely done a great job here closing the gap! 
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