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>I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages "As friendly as python or ruby, but compiles to binary for ease of depl

>I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages "As friendly as python or ruby, but compiles to binary for ease of deployment and speed" is currently an under-served market niche. Rust, Go and Swift are all candidates for the space (with the current defacto standard of friendliness in compiled languages being c++), but I find none is quite a match for me.

nimmer 10y ago
Nim is very good for small-to-medium sized services, but competing with Go is difficult for a grass-root language. Yet, Nim has a tiny memory and storage footprint and runs on microcontrollers thanks to GCC, which makes it ideal for IoT stuff.
- Sir_Substance 10y ago
  >but competing with Go is difficult for a grass-root language. Yeah, I don't have any sound technical reasons for not using Go, I just find it to be somewhat claustrophobic to use. To paraphrase someone else, when I code in Go I feel like Rob Pike is standing over my shoulder muttering "why would you want to do that?" every 10 minutes or so.