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2/24/2025 • EN

Subverting control with weak references

Explores the use of weak references in JavaScript, focusing on WeakMap and WeakRef for memory management and subverting abstraction control.

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James Long

8/27/2023 • EN

The "Weak Event" Pattern in C#

Explains the memory leak issue with C# events and demonstrates how to implement the Weak Event pattern using weak references.

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Steven Giesel

9/23/2017 • EN

Friday Q&A 2017-09-22: Swift 4 Weak References

Explains the implementation details and changes to weak references in Swift 4, comparing the old and new runtime behavior.

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Mike Ash

4/3/2017 • EN

Stop weak-strong dance

A Swift developer introduces a 'strongify' function to simplify and clean up the common pattern of weak-strong dancing when avoiding retain cycles in closures.

closures memory management Retain Cycles Swift Weak References

Krzysztof Zabłocki

Weak References Articles

Subverting control with weak references

The "Weak Event" Pattern in C#

Friday Q&A 2017-09-22: Swift 4 Weak References

Stop weak-strong dance

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