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Re:Nim 1.4 by disruptek on Friday October 16, 2020 @05:46PM (#24805364)
Nim doesn't require that you use a gc; one of its many gc options is `none`, which is, as it sounds, no garbage collector at all.
Re:Nim 1.4 by steveklabnik on Friday October 16, 2020 @06:05PM (#24805493)
Right, that was the “you can remove it” part.
Re:Nim 1.4 by jibal on Sunday October 18, 2020 @08:30AM (#24817335)
But then strings and most of the stdlib aren't available to you unless you want one big massive memory leak.