> but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language. Check this out: http://www.projectoberon.com/ http://www.projectoberon.c

> but any language with GC is a complete nonstarter as a systems programming language. Check this out: http://www.projectoberon.com/ http://www.projectoberon.com/ A full system (not just a language, but also custom CPU on FPGA, OS with GUI, applications, etc) where the language is garbage collected. The system has 1MB of RAM (by default). Note that the garbage collector is implemented entirely in the language itself. The Oberon language was also a big inspiration for Go.