It would probably make development a lot easier if we could make the code use Automated Reference Counting in our ObjC code. A few caveats though:
- We'd have to be careful in spots where we stick native objects in
void *s to make sure they are still retained as ARC doesn't manage those
- How would our native calls (ObjC syntax in a Hammer script) work with this? Right now we just treat the returned object pointers like ints, but now we'd have to parse the annotations Swift uses and properly retain/release objects. OTOH these annotations weren't there when we started doing this.
- There's no point in porting the editor XIBs etc., as we'll replace them with Stacksmith stacks and parts anyway, long-term.
It would probably make development a lot easier if we could make the code use Automated Reference Counting in our ObjC code. A few caveats though:
void *s to make sure they are still retained as ARC doesn't manage those