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Re:It is my belief that Apple is working on a new language (... by mikeash on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @03:22PM (#7842209)
Speculation on a new language from Apple has been going on for ages. Lots of people have discussed the possibility for years. There are no details in this prediction beyond "a new language", some obvious stuff like "it'll be modern", and some wrong stuff like the implication that it will use garbage collection. This is not a very interesting prediction. Just coincidental, and not particularly so.
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Re:It is my belief that Apple is working on a new language (... by cefstat on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @03:24PM (#7842215)
Moreover, the specific predictions turned out to be wrong: Swift has no garbage collection (ARC is not GC), and is not a completely clean slate but is using the ObjC runtime.
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Re:It is my belief that Apple is working on a new language (... by wootest on Friday June 06, 2014 @05:19AM (#7856915)
No points for "based on LLVM" and "opt-in as you please side by side with Objective-C"? (Side by side with Objective-C probably does not require the Obj-C runtime, but it's hard to see how it wouldn't want to use it.)

I did not predict ARC. I'm not a genius, oracle, memory management expert or compiler writer.

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Re:It is my belief that Apple is working on a new language (... by pjmlp on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @04:30PM (#7842537)
Most CS books about GC algorithms reserve chapter 1 for RC.
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