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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by dgellow on Friday September 06, 2024 @06:26AM (#41464742)
Swift does have garbage collection via reference counting
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Re:Swift is a more convenient Rust by zerr on Friday September 06, 2024 @09:21AM (#41465951)
Yes, usually GC vs non-GC discussion is actually about deterministic vs non-deterministic memory management. Swift's ref-counting is deterministic.
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