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by vlovich123 626 days ago
Nim and D both offer multiple GC strategies within the language. Just as with C and Rust, while they can be used for systems programming, they can also be used for other things. If you’re doing systems level programming with them you’re probably not choosing any tracing GC option.

Nim and D are also bad examples as I’m not aware of any meaningful systems level programs that have been written in them - they have continuously failed to find a way to become mainstream (Nim is mildly more successful in that it’s managed to break into the 50-100 range of most popular languages but that’s already well into the tail of languages to the point where you can’t even tell the difference between 50 and 100)