The "no gc" crowd

[Walter Bright]

On 10/9/2013 7:30 AM, Manu wrote:
> ARC. I've been here years now, and I see absolutely no evidence that the GC is
> ever going to improve. I can trust ARC, it's predictable, I can control it.
> Also, proper support for avoiding the GC without severe inconvenience as
> constantly keeps coming up. But I don't think there's any debate on that one.
> Everyone seems to agree.

I think we can get pretty close to ARC by using RefCounted, but you've indicated 
you disagree.

(Note that ObjC does not have a template system, and so using a library system 
was not possible for ObjC.)