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Re:Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C... by WalterBright on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:11PM (#22649064)
We looked hard at an automatic ref counting system. We could not find a way to make it 100% memory safe while allowing pointer access for efficiency. An O/B system makes this workable.

D doesn't change the syntax for O/B.

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