I’m not very experienced with either C++ or iOS, so I’m just curious if iOS the reference counting works basically alike in boost shared pointers and in NSObject?
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I’m not very experienced with either C++ or iOS, so I’m just curious if iOS the reference counting works basically alike in boost shared pointers and in NSObject?
From what I gather here, using ARC is very similar to using
std::shared_ptr(“strong” pointers) andstd::weak_ptr(“weak” pointers).Abuse the former, and avoid the latter. Anyway, prefer
std::unique_ptrif you can.(Also, I am somewhat astonished that you had to release pointers manually when programming for iOS. In the 21st century.)