Apple tried to do automatic GC but did so very badly and with a language not designed for it, so they had a bad experience and were scared away.
The modern GC in java is amazingly fast and with a few tricks likely to be good enough.
The modern GC in java is amazingly fast and with a few tricks likely to be good enough.
Sounds like a lot of armchair generals debating in hindsight about any problem in anything that fits their dislike bias rather than fore-sighting about the specifics before it has happened.
No wonder that is the reason why they are preferring to moving everyone to use Dart / Flutter in their future operating system instead of continuing to use Java.
It is like as if Android was designed to be a disaster.
It's evident that Google and many developers have had enough of it from the runtime, Java, JDKs and the whole system. Otherwise, why on earth are they planning to move away from it all in the first place?
Once again, from the perspective of the user or the app developer, they don't care, Android still just doesn't cut it against iOS. No wonder Android is always second place.