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Obj-C is 35 years old and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon. As for " people/businesses are going back to web instead of App" that's something I've been hearing for 5+ years now but the app ecosystem seems to be doing just fine. That is not to say that some ideas aren't best suited for the web but saying that apps have been losing to the web is a long stretch. To put it simple: there is the web and there are apps. If the app you intend on implementing can be fully replaced by a website, then, by all means, implement it as a website.

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>Obj-C is 35 years old and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.

What continues to be written in Obj C? Unlike its C and C++ counterparts, embedded work is not written in Obj C.

Pretty much all of the Apple core frameworks and it's unrealistic to think everything will be rewritten in Swift in the next few years. Besides that, you have countless applications for MacOS/iOS that are profitable and will be maintained for the foreseeable future.

I guess your point was "what is the relevance of Obj-C outside of the apple ecosystem?" and the answer to that you already know: pretty much none. But given that the apple ecosystem isn't going anywhere anytime soon, Obj-C will continue to be used for better or worse.

Swift on the other hand will gain all the relevance that Obj-C is losing within this ecosystem and it also has the potential of gaining a lot of relevance outside of apple as well (although it's not there yet).

>But given that the apple ecosystem isn't going anywhere anytime soon, Obj-C will continue to be used for better or worse.

What is considered soon? 5 years? That is enough to go from Facebook to Myspace.

Claims about Swift seem to neglect the world changing power of Javascript.

> Claims about Swift seem to neglect the world changing power of Javascript.

This isn’t much an argument, but I find this a hilarious and quite ironic assertion considering the website you’ve put in your profile.

My legacy wordpress website I paid for 4 years ago? lol great argument.

I wouldn't bet my money on Apple going away any time soon. Just as Microsoft didn't go anywhere ;)

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