Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 10:08 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
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> 
> Urgh. Product types masquerading as sum types. Give me a break will ya. 
> -- Andrei
> 

Uuurrr…. no. As of today I program with the stuff and it works. Coming
from Java and Python, I am an exceptions oriented person, but Go has
internal consistency on it's attitude to error reporting and you get
used to it. Actually, the obsession with error handling at the point of
occurrence does lead to getting systems that are less prone to
unexpected errors. This is pragmatism not theory. And being honest most
programmers would not know what product or sum types were. Nor would
they care. Even if perhaps they ought to.

When I worked with C, I abhorred the, to me, dreadful error codes
system. Go really does allow it to work without the same pain.

-- 
Russel.
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