Why does a new Objective-C project's boilerplate contain an autorelease pool block, but a new Swift project doesn't?

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#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {
    @autoreleasepool {
        // Setup code that might create autoreleased objects goes here.
    }
    return NSApplicationMain(argc, argv);
}

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I found this to get some more details: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25860942/is-it-necessary-to-use-autoreleasepool-in-a-swift-program

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Because the Swift project uses @main, so there’s no main.swift, so there’s no place where you can add initialisation code that would benefit from that autorelease pool.

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Why does a new Objective-C project's boilerplate contain an autorelease pool block, but a new Swift project doesn't?

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