Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/17/2014 11:20 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> One thing D has going for it compared to C++ for reference
> counting is shared vs. unshared types.  At least ARC in D
> wouldn't have to default to performing synchronized reference
> counting like shared_ptr does in C++.

Yup.