Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love

Post by famfam » Tue, Jul 13, 2010, 10:05 PM UTC

protomyth wrote: post #15

redstripe wrote: post #9

I don't understood why people think automatic deallocation = garbage collection = slow language. You can have reference counting without garbage collection. It's pretty obvious to a compiler when a variable has gone out of scope and can be dereferenced (and deallocated immediately at 0). Using a language like obj-c where you have to do memory management manually just seems so archaic after using modern languages. Plu…

First, even the "manual" version of garbage collection (the retain/release) pattern is pretty trivial with Objective-C (more so with the new property syntax). Once you know the rules it was pretty automatic and really didn't cause that many problems. It was more a problem with the "checklist" language comparisons. The "property duplication syntax" (I assume you mean the declare versus synthesis) is there for flexibil…