Mac Apps That Use Garbage Collection Must Move to ARC

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 February 2015 at 00:43:47 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On 22 February 2015 at 05:20, JN via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> 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?
>
> D's GC is terrible, and after 6 years hanging out in this 
> place, I
> have seen precisely zero development on the GC front. Nobody 
> can even
> imagine, let alone successfully implement a GC that covers 
> realtime
> use requirements.

I lack the skills to be hired by Aonix, but the military seem to 
think it is ok to put a real time JVM taking care of missile 
systems.

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Lockheed_Martin_Selects_Aonix_PERC_Virtual_Machine_For_Aegis_Weapon_System_999.html

They surely have considered the situation "GC was called => where 
did the missile go".

It doesn't get more real time than that.