[opensource-dev] About memory management on macOS 10.12 (Sierra) potentially affecting all viewers

[Argent]

The point is, They announced garbage collection and then deprecated it only
a few years later. Meanwhile traditional manual memory management which is
like 25 years old, that's still supported.

So the odds are, the course of action you're proposing ... it would have
lead to TWO big development efforts, one to switch to GC, and one to switch
back, and there would be a big debate about whether to go back or forward.
For what?

And I've been working on Swift code for the last two months, half of which
has been converting Swift 2 code so it'll be more likely to automatically
convert cleanly when we pull the Swift 3 switch.

So, no, MRR isn't going away any time soon, and Objective C isn't either.
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