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True.

by discoball 8y ago

True.

the_duke 8y ago
Cheers for owning up to it. BTW, I would see Nim more as a competitor to D, Swift and Java than to Rust.
- kungtotte 8y ago
  I think Nim absolutely has a place competing with Rust too. It has several tunable GCs allowing for great flexibility there, and also supports running with no GC at all. It compiles to C that will compile nearly anywhere C does. It produces smaller binaries, and it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint. It's also safe like Rust is, and the compiler will help you catch a ton of errors. That's not to say that it's competitive at this point in time. It's much more unstable as a language due to not reaching 1.0 yet. They only just (August) received any real kind of funding, allowing them to hire on a new developer but it's still just a handful of core devs and some dedicated contributors. The standard library and the community repo (Nimble) can't compare with Rust's and Cargo in terms of package availability and support.
  - bluejekyll 8y ago
    > it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint I'm not sure if you were implying that it doesn't, but Rust also supports musl: $> rustup target list | rg musl aarch64-unknown-linux-musl arm-unknown-linux-musleabi arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf i586-unknown-linux-musl i686-unknown-linux-musl mips-unknown-linux-musl mipsel-unknown-linux-musl powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
    - kungtotte 8y ago
      I apologize if I worded my post weirdly. It was a list of things that make Nim a competitor to Rust, not things that Nim does that Rust doesn't. There's a fair bit of overlap for obvious reasons: they're two languages suited for the same tasks, after all :)
  - karavelov 8y ago
    mrustc [1] compiles rust to optimized C also. 1. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
- skocznymroczny 8y ago
  Nim, D and Rust are in the same league, as a "C/C++ replacement"

True.

the_duke 8y ago

Cheers for owning up to it. BTW, I would see Nim more as a competitor to D, Swift and Java than to Rust.

kungtotte 8y ago
I think Nim absolutely has a place competing with Rust too. It has several tunable GCs allowing for great flexibility there, and also supports running with no GC at all. It compiles to C that will compile nearly anywhere C does. It produces smaller binaries, and it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint. It's also safe like Rust is, and the compiler will help you catch a ton of errors. That's not to say that it's competitive at this point in time. It's much more unstable as a language due to not reaching 1.0 yet. They only just (August) received any real kind of funding, allowing them to hire on a new developer but it's still just a handful of core devs and some dedicated contributors. The standard library and the community repo (Nimble) can't compare with Rust's and Cargo in terms of package availability and support.
- bluejekyll 8y ago
  > it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint I'm not sure if you were implying that it doesn't, but Rust also supports musl: $> rustup target list | rg musl aarch64-unknown-linux-musl arm-unknown-linux-musleabi arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf i586-unknown-linux-musl i686-unknown-linux-musl mips-unknown-linux-musl mipsel-unknown-linux-musl powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl x86_64-unknown-linux-musl
  - kungtotte 8y ago
    I apologize if I worded my post weirdly. It was a list of things that make Nim a competitor to Rust, not things that Nim does that Rust doesn't. There's a fair bit of overlap for obvious reasons: they're two languages suited for the same tasks, after all :)
- karavelov 8y ago
  mrustc [1] compiles rust to optimized C also. 1. https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc
skocznymroczny 8y ago
Nim, D and Rust are in the same league, as a "C/C++ replacement"