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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by saagarjha on Monday April 23, 2018 @04:58AM (#16901722)
> Apple are treating it like ARC

That's because Swift uses ARC instead of traditional tracing garbage collection.

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Re:Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga by iainmerrick on Monday April 23, 2018 @05:02AM (#16901739)
No, that’s completely separate.

What I mean is, ignore the specific technologies: Apple is treating Swift like an ideal incremental improvement (like ARC was) whereas it’s really a major change in direction that may or may not prove to be a good idea (like GC was).

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