Nim's Garbage Collection — From Automatic to None
One of the things that drew me to Nim is the degree of control it offers over memory management without forcing you to the extreme of a borrow checker. The default experience is a garbage-collected language that feels like Python. The far end of the dial is manual memory management that compiles to idiomatic C with no runtime overhead. Between those two points is a set of options worth understanding in detail — because the right choice depends heavily on what you’re building.
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