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I see nim being compared with the same languages as zig. Does anyone has any opinios regarding how nim vs zig?

• qalmakka 5y ago
  They kind of occupy two different niches, IMHO. I see Nim more as a competitor to Go, whole Zig wants to replace C mostly and somewhat competes with Rust in that regard.
• vegai_ 5y ago
  They have the same amount of letters in their name, both have "i" as the second letter. Zig is (a much) better C. Few solid features. Nim is a better (Pascal+python+lisp)/3. Lots of features. Some are solid.
• shirleyquirk 5y ago
  zig's IR is llvm, while Nim's IR is C/C++/javascript. C supports more platforms than llvm. zig: no macros plz nim: macros are amazing
  • jeltz 5y ago
    Zig has a work in progress C backend so it does not only generated llvm IR. Also to ve more specific Zig is macros are awesome but best implemented as C++'s comptime.
  • beagle3 5y ago
    FWIW, there’s nlvm which is a fork of Nim that emits LLVM IR directly.