Yay, awesome
that comes from objective-c if i am not mistaken?
Not really. ObjC by itself isn't an reference counting environment, but Foundation is. This is, everything that inherits from NSObject is automatically part of the reference counting environment and usually if one programs something for OS X or iOS, everything inherits von NSObject.
But its not only ObjC, many other languages also have the concept of an reference counting environment, eg. boost:: shared_ptr (afair its also in the tr1 namespace and C++0x has its in its default library).
Anyway, if you are familiar with Foundation, you will also be familiar with Lite Foundation. I tried to be very near to Foundation because I work with it every day (although the name Lite Foundation doesn't imply that its a Foundation spin off). There are also different concepts that I don't like in Foundation, but you will see what I mean if you are familiar with it.
