The nix programming language's interpreter deliberately has no memory garbage collector based on this argument. This decision does force a few other architectu

The nix programming language's interpreter deliberately has no memory garbage collector based on this argument. This decision does force a few other architectural decisions, and as a result has led to a few firey debates. Most nix users are surprised to learn that nix has no GC. It's unfortunately hard to search for details about this since nix uses the phrase "garbage collection" to describe something it does to the filesystem, rather than memory.