On 12 Feb 2007, at 12:51, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
In my opinion, it's a lousy attempt to become C# -- read: pandering
to MS developers, rather than taking care of its base. Bad strategy
in my opinion.
Is that because existing ObjC developers are *real* developers who
don't _need_ any fancy garbage collection or fast enumeration? ;-)
IMO, the new features look useful[*]...take-up of course depends on
how quickly and how many developers are willing to leave OS X 10.<=4
behind. Which if Core Data on 10.4 was anything to go by, is quite a
number and quite soon.
Cheers,
Graham.
[*]in different contexts of course...garbage collection probably
wouldn't be too attractive on existing code unless you know you've got
a retaincount bug *glares at Cocoa Bindings*