[firesloth]

My understanding is that nim's arc memory management strategy inserts frees where it can automatically without being a GC, and that rust actually does something similar in many cases. Nim's arc doesn't handle cycles, and there is a more GC-like orc strategy. Even using only arc (and refraining from cyclic data structures or handling those specially) still seems better than "barely ... anything on top of C apart from an oop system".