Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 21 February 2015 at 19:20:48 UTC, JN wrote:
> https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015a
>
> Interesting...
>
> Apple is dropping GC in favor of automatic reference counting. 
> What are the benefits of ARC over GC? Is it just about 
> predictability of resource freeing? Would ARC make sense in D?

As one of the GC developers explains at Reddit, the GC never 
worked properly.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2wo18p/mac_apps_that_use_garbage_collection_must_move_to/coss311