> Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection.

???

They didn't say it was.

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection.

Result builders aren't macros.

I'm not sure why you keep bringing up CALayers. That is not where the performance bottleneck lies in SwiftUI.

Not sure what you mean by "implemented as convenience wrappers around CALayers," especially when it comes to NSView where you have to opt-in to layer-backing.

> This kind of strawman "limitations of LLMs" is a bit silly. EVERYONE knows it can't do everything a human can

A large amount of people--many of them with money to invest--seem to believe otherwise.

Quite a lot of people are.

But it doesn't look identical on every platform and website ever.

Humans have the capability to draw upon their influences to re-interpret and innovate in ways that lead to a new, unique interpretation, moving standards forward. AI always mimics, nothing more.

Do you not notice all the "This video is sponsored by" segments in videos these days?