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I'm curious if you consider Nim or Golang to be a small language that is a "better C". If not, why?

• mjw1007 8y ago
  I don't think they count as a "better C" for this purpose. I'm thinking of something aiming at the niche that C currently fills. Having a garbage collector doesn't fit that, and Nim doesn't look small (anything with both destructors and exceptions is getting into complications rather beyond C).
  • chessturk 8y ago
    Makes sense to me, thanks for answering.
  • nimmer 8y ago
    Regardless, I use Nim when I need the performance and memory footprint of C. GC is optional.
    • mjw1007 8y ago
      Right, that's exactly the « it would be hard to compete against the alternative of using a small subset of {whatever} » case.
    • jefftime 8y ago
      Can you use the standard library without GC?
      • nimmer 8y ago
        Most of it.