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Re:The Garbage Collection Handbook, 2nd Edition by auxym on Saturday April 08, 2023 @11:49AM (#35494441)
Nim has exactly that with the GC_step proc.

https://nim-lang.org/1.4.0/gc.html

However recent and future versions (2.0) are moving towards a different approach that is also applicable for deterministic real time systems: ARC, which is basically alloc and free calls inserted automatically by the compiler using static analysis (no "runtime").

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