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by pjmlp 922 days ago
Yes, everyone that points that out usually has no idea that Objective-C GC failed due to C's semantics making it quite prone to crashes, and that automating Cocoa's retain/release calls was a much more easier and safer approach than making C code work in a sensible way beyond what a conservative tracing GC will ever be able to offer, while dealing with C pointers all over the place.