Refcounting makes sense when latency and responsiveness are more important than throughput. That’s true of both native UIs and most kinds of servers, which betw

Refcounting makes sense when latency and responsiveness are more important than throughput. That’s true of both native UIs and most kinds of servers, which between them cover a good fraction of code being written today, maybe the majority of code. I’m not yet convinced by Swift the language, but I think it’s positioned in just the right place.