Best I can tell, Vorlath wants Self - but since it's 20 year old technology, he's going to go ahead and reinvent it with garbage collection that isn't garbage collection, and objects that aren't objects. Here's a sample of his thinking on memory management - make sure to put your sanity defenses on full:

This system also clearly defines who owns what. Your so-called GC will work quite differently under the hood than what you're used to. Passing objects around will become very controlled and the need for a GC will not be as great. But if you wish to use one, it will be local to the cluster. The super cluster can of course monitor its activities. The GC will not be a GC in the normal sense. There'll be a memory manager for each cluster. When you allocate memory, you specify whether you want the memory manager to deallocate it automatically, to use the stack or scope for deallocation, or manual deallocation. Most people will use only use one form, but all allocation methods will be compatible with each other. Even if you allocate something that you want garbage collected, you can still manually deallocate it, and vice-versa. You can of course tell the memory manager to only accept certain kinds of allocations and notify you of any inconsistencies. This is mostly to enforce your organization's guidelines. Notice too that you can automatically ignore manual deletions if you tell the memory manager to garbage collect everything no matter what. In this way, you control how things are done and the since the super cluster can invade its containing clusters to change the way certain parts work, you can fine-tune your application without any need to change a single line of your original code... even for how memory is handled. And since clusters are independent, this makes garbage collection much easier. Heck, I don't even see the reason for a GC if your clusters or modules are well written. This is why I'm against GC's. If your data is well organized, there's no need for it. And with clear boundaries and ownership, much of the code to handle memory management can be automatically generated without a GC. So yes, there are alternatives to GC. Dare to see in color and not in B&W.

If that makes sense to you, I'm afraid. The rest of the post is like that, so don't say I didn't warn you :)