You can have manual control over memory if you want, though. This worked the last time I looked at the language, at least: foo = cast[ptr Foo](alloc(sizeof

You can have manual control over memory if you want, though. This worked the last time I looked at the language, at least: foo = cast[ptr Foo](alloc(sizeof(Foo))) # do stuff with foo dealloc(foo) EDIT: Here's the documentation on the site itself. Most things are 'traced' by the GC, but by using alloc and dealloc you can work with 'untraced' (i.e. manually allocated) memory: http://nim-lang.org/0.11.0/manual.html#types-reference-and-pointer-types http://nim-lang.org/0.11.0/manual.html#types-reference-and-p...