Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/17/2014 11:25 AM, "Ola Fosheim Grøstad" 
<ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>" wrote:
> 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…

If an app can be cheaply restarted, an easy & fast way to do memory allocation 
is to use a "bump allocator" like dmd does, and then restart when it runs out of 
memory.

I'm not joking, this can actually be very practical for certain kinds of programs.