Reference counting is still GC, but I stand by what I said that the majority of all GC research goes into java. The GP was talking about using a tracing GC—like java uses—in nim; which I argue against.
Still eventually, even Java would enjoy the value types and determnistic destruction capablities of languages like D, or to go to the days before Java, languages like Modula-3 and Eiffel, which they should have paid more attention to for Java 1.0.
