I've just been learning Nim lately, and, for the most part I like a lot of how Nim handles these things. Getting to choose between mutability and immutability,

I've just been learning Nim lately, and, for the most part I like a lot of how Nim handles these things. Getting to choose between mutability and immutability, together with procs having to explictly say when they intend to mutate one of their arguments, is fantastic. That said, I do agree with GP's first point, and can at least elaborate on it from my own perspective: At first I liked the implicit `result` variable, mostly just because it saved some typing. I quickly found it to be a source of confusing bugs, though, because accidental mismanagement of the feature would result in default values being implicitly returned rather than compiler errors. I think I ultimately agree with the Zen of Python here: Explicit is better than implicit. Also, Nim has, by my count, three different ways of returning a value from a proc: The implicit `result` var, returning the value of the last expression, and explicit `return` statements. It has four if you count modifying ref arguments. That's pretty TMTOWTDI for my tastes.