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chrisjsmith on June 7, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: iOS 5 has garbage collection. Here comes MacRuby/i...

That basically makes it useless. It would be an utter pain in the arse finding leaks in. I don't know why they cant chuck a generational collector in it such as the one in the last ObjC drop in it. Even microsoft with the woefully inadequate WM7 platform has a proper GC.

nupark2 on June 8, 2011 [–]

I wouldn't say useless -- just a lot less useful. Maybe they'll add cycle handling on top of it later.

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