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_frog on April 15, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift Generics Evolution

Swift doesn't actually use garbage collection, it uses a variant of Objective-C's Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) which was introduced a few years prior to Swift.

saagarjha on April 15, 2019 [–]

If we’re being pedantic, Automatic Reference Counting is a form of garbage collection.

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