> Can a language that uses GC (presumably, it says no manual memory management) be used to program an OS? Yes, Project Oberon[0] by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutk

> Can a language that uses GC (presumably, it says no manual memory management) be used to program an OS? Yes, Project Oberon[0] by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht is written in Oberon-07 which is a very small programming language with a garbage collector. The garbage collector is even written in Oberon-07. [0] http://www.projectoberon.com/ http://www.projectoberon.com/