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by jon — May 17
the biggest problem are the bugs, the ones from Cocoa being so big...

for instance, simply taking the example project "miniBrowser" that exists on your Development directory, and changing it to use Garbage collection in the build settings, no other changes, that simple change, will produce a browser that doesn't load all of the page at "www.ebay.com"...

why is it? because of some conflict in an unbelievably complex interaction between parts of the system...

they need to find these things and get them figured out FAST, as it is, i put in this bug report, but i don't expect to hear anything for years about it... (like another bug report i put in last year, with no word) that is infuriating...

and i'm a brand new Cocoa user. I am figuring out everything, except the most complex, but my biggest stumbling blocks are copying code directly from some example that should do something, and it doesn't do it through no fault of my own, the fault being complex bugs in how one part of the system acts with another part, it is amazing how often i've found this...

i can give even more examples of this very thing if you wish...
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