Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 18:17:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't in order to make ARC more 
> palatable.

I don't know, but on iOS you are supposed to save state to disk 
continuously so that the app can die silently and reboot to where 
you left off. And mobile apps are supposed to boot real fast 
since they are used on the move.

So maybe they figured it was good enough to leave the try-catch 
complexity out…