Swift has some tricks to make things faster than naive ARC, but the point is that you trade a little speed for deterministic behavior. The post I was replying t

Swift has some tricks to make things faster than naive ARC, but the point is that you trade a little speed for deterministic behavior. The post I was replying to was making the argument I see frequently. That if not Rust, you should go GC. This is simply wrong. The degenerate GC cases can be avoided with Swift. It’s better for a phone application in nearly every case. If it wasn’t bound to Apple, I’d say it’d be a better choice than Rust in 90% of the places Rust is used. Rust has its place, but the idea that it’s the obvious and only replacement for C++ is overblown. A language like Swift seems like a better path forward.