Exactly, which was specially problematic with third party libraries.<p>What proponents of ARC miss, is that Apple gave up on GC because they didn&#x27;t managed to make it work with Objective-C semantics, not due to merits of RC over GC.<p>Also Swift is also ARC based, because the goal is for a smooth integration with the Objective-C runtime, not due to merits of RC over GC.