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Re:Introducing Swift by pjmlp on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:02PM (#7837062)
Swift reuses the Objective-C runtime, so it had to be compatible in terms of memory management.
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Re:Introducing Swift by curveship on Monday June 02, 2014 @08:18PM (#7837388)
OK, thanks. I guess that makes sense. Now that the website is working, I see that they're aiming at fairly seamless interop between Swift and Objective-C, so I guess they need a similar memory strategy.
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