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babo | 5 years ago

Not really. As the intro of this article says, it's possible to disable GC, but you loose most of the libraries, which is one of the strengths of Nim.

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Tiberium|5 years ago

It can, ARC is really not a full-blown GC (people usually associate GC with a tracing garbage collector which ARC is not). ARC is fully suitable for writing any low-level stuff such as OSes and similar.