I did receive the same impression as you when I read the article. I am not sure where the idea of pulling the plug on either language came from (that was a huge

I did receive the same impression as you when I read the article. I am not sure where the idea of pulling the plug on either language came from (that was a huge leap based on zero evidence) but given the investment by Apple themselves and their entire ecosystem for almost 20 years, objective-c is here to stay. If you're looking for where innovation is coming from - thats Swift. We've got the same strategy on the Jenkins project. Blue Ocean is where the user experience innovation is going to be coming from now on and there will be incremental improvements in Classic. However, there is no way we could ever pull the plug on the classic UI.