On 17 April 2014 18:22, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

Of course it was sold at WWDC as "ARC is better than GC" and not as "ARC is better than the crappy GC implementation we have done".

The argument is, GC is not appropriate for various classes of software. It is unacceptable. No GC that anyone has yet imagined/proposed will address this fact.

ARC offers a solution that is usable by all parties. We're not making comparisons between contestants or their implementation quality here, GC is not in the race.