Re:Nim 0.20.0 (1.0 RC1) released
by dgllghr on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:08PM
(#20115872)
Last I heard, nim was planning on removing the garbage collector and replacing it with a lifetime system, but I don't see anything about that in the release notes. Does that mean that 1.0 of nim will include a garbage collector?
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Re:Nim 0.20.0 (1.0 RC1) released
by throwmeaway101 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @12:12PM
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Links for anybody who doesn't know what is being talked about here, https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Destructors,-2nd-editio... and https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/144 describes the specification for those changes.
The plan AFAIK is to ship it with v1 but it would not be default and you would need to do `--newruntime` for using these features. As they stabilize over time and things get ported to this new runtime, it would be made the default.