Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Baz 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?

Im not here to be liked so let's throw the bomb:

http://www.codingwisdom.com/codingwisdom/2012/09/reference-counted-smart-pointers-are-for-retards.html

The guy, despite of...well you know, is right, smart ptr are for 
beginner. The more the experience, the more you can manage memory 
by your own.