Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 15
As regular as clockwork, here's Alexandre Colucci's annual look at how the adoption of Swift and SwiftUI are progressing inside Apple. Swift adoption continues its exponential climb, but look at SwiftUI starting its own exponential journey! What an excellent sign for the future of the framework.
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 14
I've linked to Alexandre Colucci's posts looking at how Apple is adopting Swift internally for the last three years. Regular as clockwork, here's the iOS 14 edition and it covers both Swift and SwiftUI this time. It's a really positive sign for the language that it's clearly gaining significant internal adoption (although there will still be a lot of new Objective-C code too, of course).
Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 11.1
It's fascinating seeing how Apple has begun shifting its apps and frameworks over to Swift in iOS 11.1 in comparison to iOS 10.1 a year ago. I don't want to spoil the surprise, but let's just say that the list has grown by a lot.
One of the biggest surprises for me is the absence of the mail app from the list. The only reason I can think of as to why it has yet to be rewritten could be that Apple has something bigger planned for it. Perhaps a mail app redesign/makeover? We'll have to just wait and see. 🤔
Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 13
Talking of Swift, it's time for Alexandre Colucci's annual look at how adoption of Swift is going inside Apple. I won't spoil the results, but It's good news. 👍
Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12
It's not particularly surprising that Apple's use of Swift increased again this year, but it is encouraging. The tech industry has a long history of new languages/frameworks/technologies ultimately failing if the creators do not adopt them internally so I'm happy to see Swift getting serious use inside Apple. 👍
Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
It’s that time of year again! Alexandre Colucci’s annual look at Swift and SwiftUI adoption inside this year’s iOS release. I’ll let you review all the stats by reading the post, but it’s worth calling out that exponential curve for SwiftUI adoption. Look at it go!🚀
That said, for anyone thinking that Objective-C is going anywhere any time soon, the fact that 61% of binaries in this release still depend on it tells a story.
Apple’s use of languages and technologies in macOS Sonoma
It has only been a few weeks since Alexandre Colucci covered Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17, and here he is again with the same stats from Sonoma. It’s interesting to see Swift in the secure enclave and that Objective-C is going nowhere. It’s also notable that Mac Catalyst usage started to decrease this year, and SwiftUI is almost ready to swap places with it. Fascinating stuff.