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Well, if you look at the front page, you'll also see: High-performance garbage-collected language Compiles to C, C++ or JavaScript Produces dependency-fr
by Varriount 9y ago
Well, if you look at the front page, you'll also see:
High-performance garbage-collected language
Compiles to C, C++ or JavaScript
Produces dependency-free binaries
Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, and more
And of course, the "Features" button right under the text leads to https://nim-lang.org/features.html https://nim-lang.org/features.html
- kem 9y agoNim looks great, but I have to admit after looking through the website it's unclear to me why I would use this over similar alternatives. In particular, why Nim over Go (or why Go over Nim)? Is the Python's established presence and resource base (not trivial at all) the only reason one would prefer it over Nim?
- jjnoakes 9y agoGo doesn't support as many platforms as Nim, for one. And Go doesn't give you access to as many system libraries, for a second. There's cgo, of course, but that has its own can of worms. I hear the type systems are fairly different as well, which is important to some.
- nimmer 9y agoNim is programmable with macros and templates and very flexible. Go is not at all.