How about Obj-C that eliminates all of the memory alloc/dealloc and runs in the JVM? ;) Ok, that sounds just awful as I doubt much would port well. But, it does

How about Obj-C that eliminates all of the memory alloc/dealloc and runs in the JVM? ;) Ok, that sounds just awful as I doubt much would port well. But, it doesn't seem to make any sense to reinvent the wheel. Recent JVMs handle garbage collection fairly well. How about ditching all of the Obj-C and rewriting Cocoa (for OS X and iOS) in Java? Easier said than done. I say just embrace the fact that everything in OS X/iOS today is using a somewhat fast but somewhat archaic language, and just make XCode better able to spot memory leaks in code.