Oh for sure. Though manual memory management does mean giving up a _lot_ of the standard library, and ARC is a brilliant in between. Though you're 100% correct

Oh for sure. Though manual memory management does mean giving up a _lot_ of the standard library, and ARC is a brilliant in between. Though you're 100% correct, its flexibility is what makes it so great in my experience. Honestly one of the nicest things about it for the embedded work I'm doing is knowing that just about everything I'm writing is boringly stack allocated (minus seqs, strings, etc), exactly like we would've done in C ourselves anyway. But when we need to reach for dynamic memory, then ARC has been brilliant. And having RAII-like destructors I've written around C peripheral libraries has been really nice for reducing errors and making it quick to develop in.