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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by gurkendoktor on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @10:15PM (#4972180)
If Apple does not take care that its frameworks behave well with a GC app, you are likely in for a masochistic rollercoaster ride.

Apple also hasn't killed Ethernet, the desktops still have it.

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Re:Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C by mpweiher on Thursday December 27, 2012 @05:19AM (#4972946)
It's easy to get into a world of hurt even when Apple does its best to make their frameworks well-behaved with GC.

Retrofitting a conservative GC onto C is really hard, and they were never able to fully make it work. If you look at the Boehm collector's page, you see a lot of potential issues that can and do arise. Having these issues in an optional add-on that you adopt (or not) after weighing the issues is one thing, having them in a system-component that is declared to (a) be the future and (b) "Just Work™" is another.

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/issues.html

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