They said it couldn't be done, but CoffeeScript bumped Objective-C down to #11.
Of course, I think it's fair to say that there's more Obj-C code than CoffeeScript being written, but less of it is being open-sourced.
Of course, I think it's fair to say that there's more Obj-C code than CoffeeScript being written, but less of it is being open-sourced.
There's a huge contingent of…uh…let's just say "differently educated" developers who previously were making some delicious pasta in PHP and now want to build iPhone apps because they heard there's gold in them thar hills.
Objective-C is also a lower-level language than CoffeeScript and thus harder to use, especially if you're not used to working in a language where it's possible to free memory early or smash the stack.
So CoffeeScript is a very easy language that tends to be used by developers who are experienced in its domain, while Objective-C is a relatively hard language that has gotten a huge influx of rank amateurs in Stack Overflow's lifetime. Thus, the latter gets a disproportionate number of questions.
(For credibility's sake: I'm one of the top contributors to the Objective-C tag on Stack Overflow.)
I can't believe I'm reading an argument favoring Obj-C over (any flavor of) js as a noob turf...
The simple reason there's disparity is that github is not the center of the world and objC people mostly code for money, that's all there is to it.