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On the flipside though:

* You're always thinking of whether you might need to use weak refs, right? That's a cognitive load that you would otherwise be spared.

* What are the consequences when you get it wrong?

* How probable is a mistake, particularly when working with a large complex codebase that you didn't create, and don't fully understand?

* How probable is it that you might fail to detect a mistake, for a long time?



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