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> On Jun 5, 2014, at 1:14, Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wro=
te:
>=20
> Swift's memory management is similar to python's (ref. counting). Which
> makes me think that a subset of python with the same type safety would
> be an instant success.

Except that while you don't need to regularly worry about cycles in python, y=
ou do in swift. Which means you get to think constantly about direct and ind=
irect cycles, figure out where to put weak stuff, when to use a local to kee=
p a weak property alive until it finds it's strong home, etc.=