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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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