Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga

Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by cmsj on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:21AM (#16901506)

Totally agree. ARC is excellent and almost always completely transparent. When you're doing something unusual (like storing a pointer to an ObjC object in a C struct or something), there are very simple compiler hints that keep everything happy.

It's so much nicer than all the faff of manual retain/release before (and probably nicer than ObjC garbage collection, but I started ObjC after that was already discouraged, afair).

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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by iainmerrick on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:06AM (#16901758)

Come to think of it, garbage collection was an obvious “me too!” feature to catch up with Java and C#, but proved misguided because it didn’t fit well with Objective-C.

ARC was less obvious, but quickly proved to be a much better approach (edit to add: for the typical use cases of Obj-C )

It makes me wonder whether Swift’s vtables and generics are just “me too!” features, this time chasing after C++ fans... Maybe not a great idea, as they’ve also picked up some of the bad stuff like exploding compile times.

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