Also they're targeting a BBC:Microbit, which has an nRF51822 - the smaller versi...

opless · on July 19, 2019

You can run MicroPython on the nRF51822. That's a GC language. I've ran some fairly complex programs on it.

Lack of careful programming and you run out of memory, but that's more a function of assuming you have a large memory space, not GC in general.

chrisseaton · on July 19, 2019

I think the person you’re replying to means a GC that needs headroom, not a GC like Python’s which generally doesn’t.

masklinn · on July 19, 2019

FWIW micropython replace's cpython's refcount-with-cycle-breaker by a mark-and-sweep GC: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/wiki/Memory-Manag...