In this blog post I explore how the full Nim language can be used without a tracing garbage collector. Since strings and sequences in Nim can also be implemented with destructors the puzzle to solve is what to do with Nim’s ref pointers and new keyword.

Type-specific allocation turns every “use after free” bug into a logical bug but no memory corruption can happen. So ... we have already accomplished “memory safety without a GC”. It didn’t require a borrow checker nor an advanced type system. It is interesting to compare this to an example that uses array indexing instead of pointers:

Interesting approach.

source: L