my understanding: they have abandoned garbage collection in Obj-C years ago and think ARC is overall better.
And my guess: GC probably doesn't play nice with recent/future changes in OSX memory management (e.g. compressed memory) so the less apps use it the better the whole system is overall.
Hence, they probably want to get rid of the whole thing ASAP, forbidding it _for apps submitted to the mac app store_ is a reasonable step in that direction.
And my guess: GC probably doesn't play nice with recent/future changes in OSX memory management (e.g. compressed memory) so the less apps use it the better the whole system is overall.
Hence, they probably want to get rid of the whole thing ASAP, forbidding it _for apps submitted to the mac app store_ is a reasonable step in that direction.