> After this initial pruning, three languages remained on our shortlist: Free Pascal, Ada and D. I'm really sad to see that the author didn't even consider the

> After this initial pruning, three languages remained on our shortlist: Free Pascal, Ada and D. I'm really sad to see that the author didn't even consider the Nim programming language. They could have saved themselves a LOT of work, Nim's original compiler was written in Pascal and then translated to Nim using a `pas2nim` tool that is freely available on GitHub[1]. Out of Go, Rust and D, Nim is most similar to Pascal by a long shot. Did the author simply miss Nim completely or did they dismiss it for another reason? It seems to me like it would be absolutely perfect for their project. 1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/pas2nim https://github.com/nim-lang/pas2nim