On Saturday, 21 February 2015 at 19:20:48 UTC, JN wrote:
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=02202015aInteresting...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?
As one of the GC developers explains at Reddit, the GC never worked properly.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2wo18p/mac_apps_that_use_garbage_collection_must_move_to/coss311
