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by rsynnott 5229 days ago
> but it really is hard to stay up-to-date.

Well, you don't really _need_ to; this one is just syntactic sugar, and the others, while nice (or mostly; I'm unconvinced about ARC), are not necessary. I'd prefer to have the options.
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w0utert 5229 days ago
ARC is not really 'needed' for anything, it's just a very nice way to prevent memory leaks and pruning lots of retain/release statements from your code.

I would not re-factor existing code without ARC if it was properly debugged for memory leaks and working perfectly, but for all new projects I have it enabled.

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rsynnott 5228 days ago
Sorry, I meant that I'm unconvinced ARC is nice, not that I'm unconvinced it's not necessary; it clearly isn't.
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