On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:13, David Chisnall
<theraven@sucs.org> wrote:
> Also, coming from a iOS background,
If you come from iOS, is there a reason you choose not to use ARC?
Out of your offered possible reasons, I pick religious reasons. :-)
I was burned once when using a garbage collector. ARC reminds me too much of a garbage collector. One of the very reasons why I fell in love with Objective-C and frameworks built using it is its manual memory management, but which still offers a nicely packaged, consistent and ubiquitous reference counter (as opposed to, e.g., C++).
Who knows -- maybe someday something compelling comes along and changes my mind and I wholeheartedly embrace ARC. I'm much more open to it than towards a GC. But I'm certain many developers will feel this way for many years to come.