Swift does away with pointers == pervasive ARC

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 17:08:25 UTC, whassup wrote:
>  Doesn't Nimrod do deferred referencing counting(with backup 
> cycle detection). Stack references don't need to DEC/INC. Do 
> conservative stack scan during collection. Nimrod doesn't have 
> D's GC issues, why not just do that?

Ho, that make me think, doing RC but not when unwinding exception 
and backing the whole thing with a GC would probably be an 
interesting solution.