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To be fair, Mac OS X is transitioning to Automatic Reference Counting in the next version 10.8 and iOS has had ARC and Garbage Collection for a version or two n
by shadesandcolour 14y ago
To be fair, Mac OS X is transitioning to Automatic Reference Counting in the next version 10.8 and iOS has had ARC and Garbage Collection for a version or two now. Apple does exactly what Paul Graham said in a different way. Their top developers make the tools that everyone else uses. Just because they haven't transitioned to a different memory management scheme doesn't mean they aren't doing it.
We also might want to take a statement on the security of a platform by a company that makes their money securing people's computers with a grain of salt or two
- DrJokepu 14y agoThis is nitpicking but OS X 10.7 already ships with full ARC (and it works on 10.6 too in a somewhat limited manner). However, garbage collection was never enabled on iOS.
- nirvana 14y agoUnquestionably, Apple has the top people on their development tools. It is a far superior platform for development, and this goes all the way back to the NeXT days. Further, its astounding the amount of fear mongering I've seen from security firms and windows "security experts" over the past several decades. Literally they make their money by scaring people into buying tools. I believe you need those tools if you run Windows, but you don't need them if you run Linux or OS X.