D on next-gen consoles and for game development

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-29 09:05, Paulo Pinto wrote:

> The main reason was that the GC never worked properly given the C
> underpinnings of Objective-C.
>
> Too many libraries failed to work properly with GC enabled, plus you
> needed to fill your code with GC friendly annotations.
>
> So I imagine Apple tried to find a compromises that would work better in
> a language with C "safety".
>
> Even that is only supported at the Objective-C language level and it
> requires both compiler support and that objects inherit from NSObject as
> top most class, as far as I am aware.
>
> Anyway it is way better than pure manual memory management.

I'm pretty it works for their CoreFoundation framework which is a C 
library. NSObject, NSString and other classes are built on top of 
CoreFoundation.

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/Jacob Carlborg