Reference counting as in Objective C may be a happy medium for now, but that won't last. As the underlying hardware and VMs in mobile devices continue to improve, the need for developers to spend extra time on memory management will be seen as more and more of an unnecessary burden.
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Reference counting as in Objective C may be a happy medium for now, but that won't last. As the underlying hardware and VMs in mobile devices continue to improve, the need for developers to spend extra time on memory management will be seen as more and more of an unnecessary burden.
With ARC, the only extra time is spent avoiding circular data structures, which is quite easy.