Re: "Modern" server socket programming?

[David Chisnall]

On 9 Jan 2013, at 16:47, Marcus Müller wrote:

> to me that's understandable. I've never seen the point in ARC, too - until we 
> switched a rather huge codebase to ARC. The increase in readability and 
> clarity was extremely significant. Also, robustness increased dramatically. I 
> was probably the biggest opponent to the whole conversion, as I considered it 
> a waste of time and resources, but I'm totally impressed by the final result. 
> It's now very clear to me why Apple is pushing in that direction and I really 
> appreciate what David and others have done so far to bring it to GNUstep.

I should point out that there are a number of bug fixes to the ARC logic in 
libobjc2 trunk, so if you're using ARC it's well worth using trunk instead of 
1.6.  I hope to release 1.7 relatively soon (I want to improve exception 
support in the presence of foreign / C++ exceptions and to test the MIPS64 
assembly before then).

David

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