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"high framework churn" - an excellent description of the relentless API changes in Apple land, if I may say so. It is comforting to be able to run ancient appli
by 72deluxe 12y ago
"high framework churn" - an excellent description of the relentless API changes in Apple land, if I may say so. It is comforting to be able to run ancient applications on Windows compared to the inability to run apps built for Leopard on Mavericks (or even Snow Leopard), let alone anything from the Rosetta days (Homeworld 2 is now a useless game to me on Mac OSX).
- to3m 12y agoOn a similar note, there's a little note about garbage collection's grim future here, at the end: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/ObjectiveC/RN-TransitioningToARC/Introduction/Introduction.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/releasenotes/Objecti...
- 72deluxe 12y agoWould you say that ARC is a suitable alternative? I'm not "in the know" about such things.