The upcoming release will for the first time officially ship `--gc:arc` and `--gc:arc` _defaults_ to the new exception handling implementation. Furthermore `.push raises: []` will work slightly better than in previous versions (it means strict exception handling).
> Is that Nim 2020 link roughly what we should expect as the planned direction > of Nim 1? Yes, that's the official plan. It focusses on the "big impact" features though, lots of little nice additions and improvements are also included in 1.2.
