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Basically it is a compiled language that feels like a scripting language -- typically compiled languages have so much boilerplate code -- but Nim doesn't. If yo
by jhbadger 7y ago
Basically it is a compiled language that feels like a scripting language -- typically compiled languages have so much boilerplate code -- but Nim doesn't. If you just looked at a Nim program, you might even think it is in some scripting language you haven't seen before. I see Nim and Crystal filling a similar niche -- Nim feels more like Python and Crystal more like Ruby.
- squarefoot 7y ago"Nim feels more like Python and Crystal more like Ruby" Agreed. To me Crystal is a bit easier to grasp because I already used Ruby a long ago, but it has the non trivial disadvantage of being bootstrapped (ie, it requires itself to compile itself) so that it is slower to port to different architectures.