Except there isn't any VM when the code is AOT compiled to native code with NGEN, MDIL in Windows Phone 8, .NET Native, or in iOS.
The presence of garbage collection has nothing to do with being native or not.
Besides a language runtime and VM aren't the same thing.
Actually Swift makes use of Objective-C runtime to achieve interoperability with Objective-C libraries.
Oberon, Oberon-2, Modula-3, Component Pascal, D, Spec#, Dafny are all examples of languages that compile to native code, were used to write operating systems and use garbage collection.
The presence of garbage collection has nothing to do with being native or not.
Besides a language runtime and VM aren't the same thing.
Actually Swift makes use of Objective-C runtime to achieve interoperability with Objective-C libraries.
Oberon, Oberon-2, Modula-3, Component Pascal, D, Spec#, Dafny are all examples of languages that compile to native code, were used to write operating systems and use garbage collection.