Yea, I liked the idea of what go was waning to do. They wanted classes and objects without the classes and inheritance, but all they've done is replace that headache with an interface headache.
Okay, can someone who understands this explain it a little better. My understanding is that ARC (or automatic reference counting) wasn't garbage collection because there isn't any garbage collection. I had thought that ARC was a compiler optimization that would analyze your code and add the deconstructor code while compiling based off some possible usage graph or whatnot. ARC therefore is not garbage collection. Yes, it's memory management, but to link the two as the same is wholly inaccurate. Please chime in to let me know how wrong I am.
I could argue that if you work for the DOD, it's entirely possible that all your code will only execute once. Sadly, I do work for a government agency, but my code only runs once because of mismanagement... :(
Question for those who understand this, why can the government force a middle man to exist in the first place? It seem to a layman to violate several other rights.
What I'm more amused by is the level of scepticism over an self contained eco-system. In order for any eco-system, either contained or not contained, there has to be much greater tolerances to extreme conditions that we generally acknowledge. In truth, outside of absolute extremes where organic life is simply impossible because or either denaturing or absolute destruction of organic material, life will exist. It's also entirely possible that this bottle now contains bacteria, fungi, or other organisms that are much more efficient at breaking down the organic material left by the dying plant mater.
Name a letter or a word and there is some project out there that had it before. If you come to grips with this now, your adult life will be much easier.
Enterprise and government comes with a lot of baggage that no sane developer would ever try to take on. You are manifesting your priorities on them, and that simply may not be the case. The $200 price point is likely that high in order to keep the client base low. I'm not saying you're wrong, but Apple itself barely supports enterprise with most of their enterprise management bits being third party. A laptop without a docking station??? Crazy, they might as well not sell computers...
Source: Work for government, not entirely sane, have had Apple reps brought in to discuss in house dev, written in house application, ruby, C#, C, Obj-C, JS, C++ developer in order of preference.
Um, because I don't know if it's a good thing. How hard is that for you to understand. Seriously, did you read my comment before deciding to lay on the snark.
I agree, and the 30 day trial isn't enough. It would be side projects, so I may get to hack on it for a day and maybe a night or two. I can write Obj-C, and Java, they just aren't as intuitive or enjoyable to me. And lets face it, $200 is just too much to spend when RubyMotion may not exist for version 4, and then I have an entire application that needs to be ported into Obj-C and Java... And a promise of open sourcing it doesn't help, because there may be no maintainers. IronRuby, now that C# has dynamics, would be awesome. But it hasn't been updated in 3 years. I'd even drop $100 sight unseen. But $200... Noooope.
It could be a bad sign, or it could speak to priorities, and your priorities are not their priorities it seems. Personally, I accept all pull requests that are solid, written to my standards, fix or extend a feature that is a priority, are accompanied with unit tests, and do not impact or impinge on another feature or future feature. I do not however accept all pull requests. Part of this is that if there is no demand and it's a single individuals edge case, then I'll very heavily scrutinize the patch. If I don't agree, don't understand exactly what every line is doing, or do not feel it will be used by a significant portion of the user base then I won't pull it. Because moving forward, I will have to maintain it, and that isn't free. And if people don't like that, they can fork it.
Wiser men than I will choose to not name-call, though I live to no such standard. If you are a male and feel your rights are being impinged, you're as much of a loser as you are delusional. Get your head out of your ass and stop being a little bitch.