> I put about as much effort into my critique as the original article's author did in arguing for C#'s superiority. Not really. He stated an actual fact: Prope

> I put about as much effort into my critique as the original article's author did in arguing for C#'s superiority. Not really. He stated an actual fact: Proper garbage collection allows for simpler memory management than retain counting. I agree that he didn't do enough to illustrate this, but he did go further than just "I like this thing." It is indeed true that there are a number of awkward situations where you can end up with immortalized objects with retain counting that would not have been so under garbage collection (see for example the "__block id uglyHack = self" idiom in Objective-C). > 70% code reuse across iOS and Android (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998661 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998661) is hardly what I'd call "portable". Does the Bash shell do better than 70% code reuse across Linux / BSD / etc? I certainly hope it does. I would rather rewrite 30% of my code than 100%. If you want to say it's imperfect and could be better, that's fine, but dismissing it entirely seems unreasonable to me.