Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

Thu Feb 26 12:23:16 PST 2015

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 12:06:53 UTC, Baz wrote:
> 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.

Programmer that think they are so smart they handle everything 
are the very first to screw up because of lack of self awareness. 
Good, now that we established the author is the retard here, how 
seriously do we take his rant ?