alt Hacker News> CocoaJava was when they were not certain devs educated in C++ and Object Pascal would ever accept Objective-C.
They actually went all in on CocoaJava. I was there for the WWDC.
> Garbage collection is still there
"Garbage collection is deprecated in OS X 10.8. Use ARC instead—see Transitioning to ARC Release Notes."
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsgarba...
> They actually went all in on CocoaJava. I was there for the WWDC.
Of course they did, until they saw the Objective-C adoption numbers were high enough.
> "Garbage collection is deprecated in OS X 10.8. Use ARC instead—see Transitioning to ARC Release Notes."
ARC is garbage collection, of course mighty Apple won't acknowledge that, because it doesn't suit their marketing, and they are to sell ARC after the Objective-C 2.0 conservative GC failure, given the underlying C semantics.
So they need to sell ARC as the great saviour, so much better than "GC".
https://gchandbook.org/contents.html
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~weimerw/2008-415/reading/bacon-g...