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Re:Why I want Swift to be your first language by zxcvcxz on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:49PM (#10131630)
Isn't ARC almost exclusive to "Apple languages"? It seems like GC is much more relevant.
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Re:Why I want Swift to be your first language by AlexeyBrin on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:18PM (#10131824)
Not necessarily, C++11 has smart pointers which have reference counting.
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