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by krig 4400 days ago
- Garbage Collection is handled via reference counting and ARC. No automatic cycle detection, the programmer has to manually track and resolve reference cycles. Same as using ARC in Objective C.

- It is a statically typed language. Type inference is the same mechanism as is used in C++11 with the auto keyword. Basically, anywhere the compiler can "guess" the type, you don't have to be explicit about it. Unless you want the variable to have a different type from the inferred type, that is.