In Dan Benjamin's absence, John Siracusa and Ryan Irelan follow up on the seemingly never-ending list of features in BBEdit and LaunchBar, take a side trip into the world of "haxies" and system extensions, and then—finally!—discuss Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) in Lion.

Links for this episode:

• LaunchBar
  
• Paths in the grass - John Siracusa on "haxies" (2006)
  
• BBEdit's multi-language support (video)
  
• ARC in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
  
• Hypercritical #14: A Dark Age of Objective-C
  
• Objective-C without the C
  
• Default Folder X
  

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