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 ?
