Re: Intermediate Summary: Re: GNUstep.org website redesign proposal

[Niels Grewe]

> Am 12.01.2014 um 00:06 schrieb "Riccardo Mottola" <address@hidden>:
> 
> ARC instead is more a "taste". It is a new addition in the GC discussion. I 
> personally prefer ref-counting.

This seems to be a common misconception: ARC *is* reference counting; it has 
very little to do with garbage collection. I also think the new ownership model 
fits the overall language design pretty well: Just as you distinguish between 
method calls (object world) and function calls (C world) in traditional 
Objective-C, ARC-support enables you to explicitly distinguish between object 
references and references to untyped blobs of memory, which (coincidentally) 
allows the compiler to do most of the reference counting for you.

Cheers,

Niels