No garbage collection, but Strings... it handles those brilliantly, you never need to allocate them, and they are automatically reference counted, and just work

No garbage collection, but Strings... it handles those brilliantly, you never need to allocate them, and they are automatically reference counted, and just work, even with a gigabyte of ascii in them. It's the best of both worlds. No GC pause, yet you can have huge strings in memory, return them from functions, all without issue.