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		anton_gogolev on June 2, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Swift Programming Language So is Swift a managed language or what?

yonran on June 2, 2014 [–]

It uses Automatic Reference Counting like Objective C. You must avoid strong reference cycles by declaring your fields weak and optional or unowned. It has deterministic deinit.

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