Smart pointers instead of GC?

[Adam Wilson]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:53:39 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/3/14, 4:49 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:
>> That may be the case, but StackOverflow shows that ARC hasn't been
>> panacea in Apple land either. Way to many people don't understand ARC
>> and how to use it, and subsequently beg for help understanding
>> heisenleaks and weak references. ARC places a higher cognitive load on
>> the programmer than a GC does. And Android runs just fine with GC'ed
>> apps, but ARC guys don't want to talk about Google's successes there.
>
> Links please.
>
> Andrei

Easier to link a couple of Google searches:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ios+stack+overflow+cyclic+reference&oq=stack+overflow+ios+cyclic+reference

Note that some of those are related to circular imports as well. But the  
problems definitely show up in that list.

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Adam Wilson
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Aurora Project Coordinator