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by AnonC 856 days ago
> It's important to note that there's still tons of Objective-C written inside Apple to this day, perhaps more than Swift.

I don’t know if this is true or not, but Apple certainly isn’t writing its own end-user applications with good macOS technologies and support (which means it’s not using Objective C and Cocoa). Apps like Reminders, Notes, Photos and others on macOS seem and behave like poorly ported versions of an iOS app.

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In user space perhaps, but the OS is very heavily ObjC (and C)

Someone posted a great analysis breaking down how many binaries used which language in iOS through the years