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If reference counting were going to help, they'd probably have switched to it already by now. I wonder if the poster just is angling for an opportunity to embark on a rant about one of Swift/Objective-C/ARC, Python, Rust, C++ - or perhaps all of them?

I figured he was talking about Rust, given that it is basically a refcount system but with the added constraint that the refcount can not exceed 1.

It's the only language that is anywhere close to meme status that I know of.

Arc/Rcs in Rust refcount, but the language doesn't at runtime, or even really at compile time.

FWIW, people make this analogy, but I think it’s quite misleading; a ref count system can make things live longer, but borrowing can’t.

I did a search for "freecodyx user", and found no results, so I guess you don't exist.

In order for a meme to exist, it needs to be popular. A person doesn't need to be popular to exist.

It's like you're claiming you are famous because your mom knows who you are.

My point was that your search criteria (including the keyword “meme”) is only applicable for what we might call “internet culture memes”, which is clearly not what was meant by the post you’re replying to. Your results were irrelevant.