Comment by pjmlp
6 hours ago
Yes, plenty have been done already so since Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Interlisp-D, Cedar, Oberon, Sing#, Modula-2+, Modula-3, D, Swift,....
It is a matter to have an open mindset.
Eventually system languages with manual memory management will be done history in agentic driven OSes.
Swift, by design, does not have GC.
Chapter 5,
https://gchandbook.org/contents.html
It would help if all naysayers had their CS skills up to date.
RC is a GC method and the least efficient one.