# Has swift outpaced Objective-C on iOS?

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**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/has-swift-outpaced-objective-c-on-ios/645904 "2021-01-30T00:40:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 12:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/has-swift-outpaced-objective-c-on-ios/645904/1 "2021-01-30T00:40:51Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/has-swift-outpaced-objective-c-on-ios/645904/2 "2021-01-30T01:55:15Z")

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> 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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**Author:** ![tbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/has-swift-outpaced-objective-c-on-ios/645904/3 "2021-01-30T16:44:23Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/has-swift-outpaced-objective-c-on-ios/645904/4 "2021-01-30T19:31:20Z")

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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! 🙂