Getting completely (I mean ENTIRELY) rid off GC

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On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 19:56:17 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 11.09.2014 20:32, schrieb Daniel Alves:

> It is incredible how Objective-C's ARC became a symbol for 
> reference counting, instead of the living proof of Apple's 
> failure to produce
> a working GC for Objective-C that didn't crash every couple of 
> seconds.

I think I fail to grasp something here. For me, ARC is something 
that is managed at runtime: you have a counter on a chunk of 
memory and you increase it with each new reference towards that 
memory, then you decrement it when memory is released. In the 
end, when the counter reaches 0, you drop the chunk.

OTOH, code analysis and automatically inserting free/delete where 
the programmers would/should have done it is not really that. Is 
a compile-time approach and not different of manual memory 
management.

Which one is, in the end, the approach took by Apple, and which 
one is the "true" ARC?...