[readymade]

Objective-C also uses ARC by default, and that's been the case for several years now. In any event, avoiding retain cycles is relatively straightforward and most iOS devs I know would agree that the low memory overhead and lack of GC pauses are worth the occasional extra effort of weak references.

[qwertyuiop924]

I didn't know that Objective-C defaulted to ARC. Thanks for the information, and I am sorry for misrepresenting the language.