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Re:Do We Really Need Another Smartphone OS? by gtufano on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:28PM (#5017378)
Objective-C is not "managed". iOS apps are sandboxed, but obj-c is very near to C (and most of the Foundation API are pure C). Also, ARC is not mandatory and there is no garbage collector on iOS.
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Re:Do We Really Need Another Smartphone OS? by slurry on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:49PM (#5017463)
Nonsense. If my Objective-C app is sandboxed, it is "managed". Saying ARC "is not mandatory" is another way of saying it is "enabled by default". There is little formal computational difference between ARC and a conservative garbage collector.

Fact: Objective-C is "managed".

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