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You don't spend days tracking down memory corruption issues caused by C underpinnings.


Not bashing Swift, but I can't remember the last time I had a memory issue when using ARC in ObjC.


ARC in Objective-C only applies to classes following Cocoa retain/release patterns.

Anything else is not under ARC support and thus fails under the same memory allocation patterns as C.

Additionally there are the C pointer manipulation, strings and arrays.




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