Also for all the hate Xcode deservedly receives, it comes with some really great tooling in the Instruments package that, among other things, makes it trivial t

Also for all the hate Xcode deservedly receives, it comes with some really great tooling in the Instruments package that, among other things, makes it trivial to detect leaked memory when it does happen. And from my own experience developing in Obj-C and Swift for 15 years, I agree that it’s really not the big issue that anti-reference counting people make it out to be.