There are new programmers coming of age every day, so the proportion that even thinks about Objective-C at all (never mind advocates it) is going down down down.

Honestly, that seems doubtful. The C language has intense dominance and Objective-C puts a nice, minimal, object oriented wrapper on all of that while all the C developer tools remain effective.

You think teenagers getting into iOS development are pining for that?

It’s a moot point. If they work at Meta, Google, Snapchat, Spotify, etc. they’re going to end up dealing with Objective-C

In legacy code bases mostly.

The only modern macOS framework that is still written in Objective-C is Metal, and still almost everyone uses the Swift bindings instead.

> The only modern macOS framework that is still written in Objective-C is Metal

This is inaccurate. Extremely inaccurate, nearly 100% mistaken. Almost every macOS framework is still written in Objective-C, including AppKit and Foundation.

And the Swift rewrite of Foundation is only beginning: (from December 2022) https://www.swift.org/blog/future-of-foundation/

See also: https://blog.timac.org/2022/0818-state-of-appkit-catalyst-sw... and https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...