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How does Rust compare to Nim? It seems Nim is as fast as C, static binaries, and ergonomic UX. Whereas Rust looks like C++ mixed with bath salts.
by sergiotapia 7y ago
How does Rust compare to Nim? It seems Nim is as fast as C, static binaries, and ergonomic UX. Whereas Rust looks like C++ mixed with bath salts.
- mratsim 7y agoNim dev here. If you are talking about async/await: - for concurrency it has been in the standard library for a couple of years. Also you can implement it as a library without compiler support. - for parallelism, Rust is in advance. Nim has a simple threadpool with async/await (spawn/^), it works but it needs a revamp as there is no load balancing at all. You can also fallback on the raw pthreads/windows fibers and/or OpenMp for your needs or even OpenCL and Cuda. Regarding the revamp you can follow the very detailed Picasso RFC at https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/160 https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/160 and the repo I'm currently building the runtime at https://github.com/mratsim/weave https://github.com/mratsim/weave. Obviously I am biaised as a Nim dev that uses Nim for both work and hobby so I'd rather have others that tried both comment on their experience.