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Nim is the most readable language I've ever seen. I've dabbled with Go, but Nim is almost like pseudocodes+types. Highly recommend you take a look and try it ou

Nim is the most readable language I've ever seen. I've dabbled with Go, but Nim is almost like pseudocodes+types. Highly recommend you take a look and try it out! You can use libraries like https://github.com/planety/prologue https://github.com/planety/prologue or https://github.com/treeform/pixie https://github.com/treeform/pixie to create something quickly and fun(compile times are faaasst!). And Nim does not have a mandatory GC, you can go as low-level as you want, but in case you don't want that you can choose from several great GC's(a capable soft real-time GC and Boehm for example). Or you could combine the best of both worlds and take a look at the shiny fancy ARC/ORC deterministic memory management: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc-in-nim.html https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc...

mrath 5y ago
Looks like you know a bit of Nim. Apart from ecosystem and IDE what are the some of the disadvantages of Nim compared to Go?
- auxym 5y ago
  I have not done a lot of Go, but I'm pretty sure Nim's concurrency story isn't up there with go, at least not yet. Nim has other advantages, including great Interop with C or C++ as it compiles to these languages and allows low level, unsafe features like raw pointers when needed.
- sp33der89 5y ago
  * Goroutines are probably a lot more easier to use. Work is being done to make Nim even better in that area: https://github.com/nim-works/cps https://github.com/nim-works/cps but don't expect it soonish. * I feel like Go has less 'edge cases', but the Nim compiler is steadily getting more stable, especially consider it's not backed up by a major company! * Metaprogramming is really powerful, but not beginner friendly. The documentation says use macros when necessary, but personally I don't think that really happens in practice. The advantages by far outweigh the disadvantages, especially if you are looking for a clean Go alternative(except maaaaaaybeee web application). EDIT: my own wishlist, but they aren't relevant compared to Go: * Better sum types * Builtin pattern matching

mrath 5y ago

Looks like you know a bit of Nim. Apart from ecosystem and IDE what are the some of the disadvantages of Nim compared to Go?

auxym 5y ago
I have not done a lot of Go, but I'm pretty sure Nim's concurrency story isn't up there with go, at least not yet. Nim has other advantages, including great Interop with C or C++ as it compiles to these languages and allows low level, unsafe features like raw pointers when needed.
sp33der89 5y ago
* Goroutines are probably a lot more easier to use. Work is being done to make Nim even better in that area: https://github.com/nim-works/cps https://github.com/nim-works/cps but don't expect it soonish. * I feel like Go has less 'edge cases', but the Nim compiler is steadily getting more stable, especially consider it's not backed up by a major company! * Metaprogramming is really powerful, but not beginner friendly. The documentation says use macros when necessary, but personally I don't think that really happens in practice. The advantages by far outweigh the disadvantages, especially if you are looking for a clean Go alternative(except maaaaaaybeee web application). EDIT: my own wishlist, but they aren't relevant compared to Go: * Better sum types * Builtin pattern matching