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Garbage collection was deprecated almost immediately after it was released and has never been supported on iOS (which let’s be honest is the target for 95% of a

by kec 7y ago

Garbage collection was deprecated almost immediately after it was released and has never been supported on iOS (which let’s be honest is the target for 95% of all cocoa developers)

xhruso00 7y ago
Be careful, Cocoa is Mac, UIKit is iOS. Most of iOS developers have minimum Cocoa experience.
- kec 7y ago
  Cocoa is more fundamental and exists in both (although branded as “CocoaTouch” on iOS originally). The UIKit analog on macOS is AppKit. Also GC/Arc aren’t features of cocoa, but of Objective-C itself.
  - rdsnsca 7y ago
    ARC was added to get ready for Swift.