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There is nothing quite like Nim in the other languages you mention. Nim's GC is different than most of the others and you can also control it so it only runs for a certain amount of time. Nim is also very expressive and clean. The meta-programming capabilities are fantastic. Its overhead is significantly lower than the JVM and it is cross platform (unlike .net).

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I think Nim author need to documentate/explain/illustrate a lot more about its GC. I once have interested in Nim, but I couldn't figure out how its GC is proper (predictable & deterministic rather than throughput) to RT apps. And that dropped my interest on it. I believe this is a biggest obstacle to RT app programmers to take interest on Nim.

Nowadays the term "GC" almost implies "tracing GC", so "non-tracing GC" need to be well explained. Or need to adapt some new term to explain new concept. Currently, Nim's GC explanation just looks like incremental RTGC that is not really attractive to existing RT app programmers.

Have you taken a look at the GC documentation (http://nim-lang.org/gc.html)?

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