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Apple's new Swift language, featuring modern-day development capabilities for building OS X and iOS applications, is likely to find swift, high placement in assessments of programming language popularity.

Both the Tiobe and PyPL indexes already have plans to accommodate Swift. "A preview shows that its first rating will probably in the top 20 by [the July Tiobe index]. Swift is a natural and long-awaited next step of Apple," this month'sTiobe index description said. The monthly index, which gauges language popularity via a formula assessing searches on languages on sites like Google, Wikipedia, and YouTube, has shown Swift's predecessor, the Objective-C language,ranking not far behind C and Java in language popularityin recent years.

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