Top all-time · #25258
M Cubed Blog
Company blog · mcubedsw.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
M Cubed Blog is the company blog at mcubedsw.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2008, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a thread titled "Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love", a post defending Objective-C. The one comment only argues that automatic deallocation is not the same as garbage collection, so it does not judge the post.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I don't understood why people think automatic deallocation = garbage collection = slow language. You can have reference counting without garbage collection. It's pretty obvious to a compiler when a variable has gone out of scope and can be dereferenced (and deallocated immediately at 0). `[object performSelector:sel];` // where `sel` may be - retain How should the compiler optimize that? Plus there is strange proper…
Comment linking /blog/index.php/site/comments/new_objective-c_features/
on “Stop the Hate: Obj-C Deserves Your Love”Submitted Xcode 3.2: the awesome edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Codecollector pro as a story · 1 points
HN discussion