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Re:The Programming Languages Zoo by mpweiher on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:05AM (#45732347)
Huh?

ARC stands for Automatic Reference Counting. The compiler manages the reference counts.

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Re:The Programming Languages Zoo by Verdex on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @09:32AM (#45732675)
They may have been thinking rust where it means atomic reference counting.

(Although the compiler inserts ref count inc and dec calls automatically, so ...)

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