Come to think of it, garbage collection was an obvious “me too!” feature to catch up with Java and C#, but proved misguided because it didn’t fit well with Objective-C.
ARC was less obvious, but quickly proved to be a much better approach (edit to add: for the typical use cases of Obj-C )
It makes me wonder whether Swift’s vtables and generics are just “me too!” features, this time chasing after C++ fans... Maybe not a great idea, as they’ve also picked up some of the bad stuff like exploding compile times.
