> On Nov 22, 2019, at 2:08 AM, H. Nikolaus Schaller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I find it incredibly hard to understand why someone would actively choose to >> have to spend more time thinking about memory management so that they can >> end up with larger binaries that run more slowly. > > Because it is less time typing release or autorelease at the right plcae, > than finding out how to install new toolchains which have unexpected > dependencies like search paths and choosing between multiple runtime libs...
I think this answer speaks volumes. It's not a language thing, it's a tooling one... Which is even more reason to focus on one toolchain to keep things simple and organized. And the fact that Clang is a cross-compiler by default is a huge win IMHO.
