No, ARC is emphatically *not* garbage collection. It's not new either, Objectionable-C does it, as does auto_ptr in C++
There's a pretty accurate summary of the language on quora: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Swift-Apple-Programming-Language-compare-with-other-modern-programming-languages Though I'm upset that the most popular answer fails to mention the complete lack of features for tackling concurrency! On 3 June 2014 20:30, BoD <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Cedric this is a nice summary / first look at the language! > > I notice the language features something they call "Automatic Reference > Counting". Is this the same as a Garbage Collector? > > -- > BoD > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
