Re: Automatic memory management Siracusa himself concedes in his podcast that Obj-C has garbage collection, but that it was something of a second class citizen

Re: Automatic memory management Siracusa himself concedes in his podcast that Obj-C has garbage collection, but that it was something of a second class citizen. Because garbage collection has been tacked on (and currently not supported on iOS) old pros are unlikely to adopt it. On top of that, newbies who look to the old pros for guidance are going to follow their lead and not use it either. Siracusa also used the same argument against Obj-C's dot syntax.