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Isn’t that having your cake and eating it too?

Like if you find the performance penalty acceptable, use an RC, and you have imho a better swift.



I agree!

As an Objective-C veteran, I feel a lot of people overthink these decisions. You can write highly performant applications with prevalent reference counting, and Rust lets you optimize where it actually counts.




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