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0 pointsdisruptek5y ago0 comments

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.

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Right, that was the “you can remove it” part.

jibal5y ago

But then strings and most of the stdlib aren't available to you unless you want one big massive memory leak.

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0 pointsdisruptek5y ago0 comments

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.

Right, that was the “you can remove it” part.

jibal5y ago

But then strings and most of the stdlib aren't available to you unless you want one big massive memory leak.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse