[stcredzero]

Go's native GC is specifically targeted for Go. To be performant, one would want GC targeted towards the language to be implemented.

[sephware]

Only if you're using Go's native GC as the Lua VM's GC, which isn't the only option.

[stcredzero]

I have to confess, I've been thinking of implementing Smalltalk in Go, using its native GC as a very unoptimized GC.