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Not really. As the intro of this article says, it's possible to disable GC, but you loose most of the libraries, which is one of the strengths of Nim.

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It can, ARC is really not a full-blown GC (people usually associate GC with a tracing garbage collector which ARC is not). ARC is fully suitable for writing any low-level stuff such as OSes and similar.

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