Re:Swift Regrets
by saagarjha on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:38AM
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Tiny? It made it so you’d never have to deal with an overrelease ever again…
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Yes, tiny.
Not sure what you're on about with the "overrelease" bit, but all ARC did was automate things with additional compiler support that were already automated.
And it caused additional crashes in code that shouldn't even be able to crash:
https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/compiler-writers-gone-wi...