Has anyone ever successfully tried to carve out a “GC-free” subset of some GC’d language? All of the attempts I can think of have been failures.
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Replying to @pcwalton
They added GC to Objective-C then ripped it back out. Does that count
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Replying to @jckarter
Yeah, I’m considering reference counting as a type of GC here
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Replying to @pcwalton
In ancient times there was the pre-refcounting AppKit from nextstep…
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Replying to @jckarter
Whoa, I didn’t realize that was a thing. Did you have to call [foo dealloc] explicitly or something?
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Awesome
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