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I'm curious about how memory management would work. Swift has rejected garbage collection in favor of ARC.


I was going to make it use GC and make ARC-specific constructs a noop (I hadn't decided whether I wanted "weak" to be a JVM WeakReference or not, I did not get that far).




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