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CLU, Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Eiffel, Sather, BETA, D, Nim, Swift, C#, F# are all examples of GC based languages with value types that can be used without any kind of boxing.


Impressive erudition and interresting list of nice languages, some of which I'd never heard about, thank you. Yes indeed not all GCed languages suffer from mandatory boxing. I've been both picky and wrong, which is not a nice place to find oneself in :)




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