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.