Ender.uNF posted:

Heartbleed? Goto fail? is that not enough of a reason to finally admit C has got to loving go? Or do we need another "Internet-wide SSL-compromising, make every. loving. Human. On. The. Planet. change their passwords" sort of vulnerability before we admit relying on human beings to write perfect code to prevent memory corruption is completely stupid and hopeless?



Type inference, full type fidelity, and the tooling around all that should make it easier to make Xcode more helpful* and easier to debug. (*whether that happens is another matter).

Generics are excellent. The caller knows it's an array of strings, the callee creates an array of strings, but put a bird on it? Why not, Objective-C doesn't give a poo poo!