It&#x27;s not the end user that would suffer, but the programmer. Who want&#x27;s to program around a process that blocks all other threads? Not me. I hate boiler plate.<p>Swift&#x27;s ARC is basically automatic boilerplate for resource management that&#x27;s applied at compile time. It&#x27;s extremely flexible in that you can also use raw pointers and manage memory manually if you want to. A native language with ARC as a passive option is a way better tool for making games than a garbage collected one on the VM, IMO.<p>&gt; ;-)<p>I&#x27;ll never understand why people think winking online is a socially competent thing to do.