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I think a more interesting comparison is Zig vs Nim. Where Nim beats or at the very least matches performance against Zig in multiple tests, while having an inf

I think a more interesting comparison is Zig vs Nim. Where Nim beats or at the very least matches performance against Zig in multiple tests, while having an infinitely nicer, friendlier syntax. https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/zig-vs-nim https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/zig-vs-ni... I love Nim so much, I wish it became more popular somehow. Unfortunately it has stagnated in popularity.

Buttons840 3y ago
I think Nim looks good, but I'm more likely to learn Rust or Zig personally. I've tried to put my finger on why that is, and I think it's because Nim looks like another good language that is just good all around, it makes good trade-offs and finds a local optimum being good at everything. A lot of language have tried this though, I've seen it all before. Rust did something new, they accepted that "yeah, our language might be really painful to write your seat-of-the-pants business logic in" and they did the borrow checker stuff. Zig is similar, keeping many of the pains of C, but making some important improvements.
hugs 3y ago
I feel the same way. I wish Nim was more popular, but I'm not letting that stop me from using it. It's already extremely useful enough. I spent the last few weeks writing Nim code (specifically an OpenCV binding that wraps just the C++ libraries I need). Nim let's me write fast, compiled, "Pythonic" code. And the INim interactive shell let's me program "1 line at a time" the same way I would with the Python REPL or JavaScript console.
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- danielEM 3y ago
  That pythonic syntax is something that prevents Nim to gain more popularity. I think it would be a great move from Nim side to introduce dual syntax support: python like and c/d/java/JavaScript/typescript/go/rust/zig ... like
  - hugs 3y ago
    And yet, it didn't hold Python back, based on the current TIOBE index rankings.
  - cb321 3y ago
    You can often/usually put ()s around things if you want. It's just an uncommon style. (Much like you can format bracey code like lisp with the close brackets bunched up all at the end of one line instead of one per line, but people rarely do.)
- lucidrains 3y ago
  same, I am too old to really care if others cannot see this as nearly the perfect language
jadbox 3y ago
Afaik, nim was influenced by and originally developed in D-lang. Both are wonderful languages and a real joy to develop on. My ultimate dream is a language that's low level like zig but has the flexibility of nim.

Buttons840 3y ago

I think Nim looks good, but I'm more likely to learn Rust or Zig personally. I've tried to put my finger on why that is, and I think it's because Nim looks like another good language that is just good all around, it makes good trade-offs and finds a local optimum being good at everything. A lot of language have tried this though, I've seen it all before. Rust did something new, they accepted that "yeah, our language might be really painful to write your seat-of-the-pants business logic in" and they did the borrow checker stuff. Zig is similar, keeping many of the pains of C, but making some important improvements.

hugs 3y ago

I feel the same way. I wish Nim was more popular, but I'm not letting that stop me from using it. It's already extremely useful enough. I spent the last few weeks writing Nim code (specifically an OpenCV binding that wraps just the C++ libraries I need). Nim let's me write fast, compiled, "Pythonic" code. And the INim interactive shell let's me program "1 line at a time" the same way I would with the Python REPL or JavaScript console.

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danielEM 3y ago
That pythonic syntax is something that prevents Nim to gain more popularity. I think it would be a great move from Nim side to introduce dual syntax support: python like and c/d/java/JavaScript/typescript/go/rust/zig ... like
- hugs 3y ago
  And yet, it didn't hold Python back, based on the current TIOBE index rankings.
- cb321 3y ago
  You can often/usually put ()s around things if you want. It's just an uncommon style. (Much like you can format bracey code like lisp with the close brackets bunched up all at the end of one line instead of one per line, but people rarely do.)
lucidrains 3y ago
same, I am too old to really care if others cannot see this as nearly the perfect language

jadbox 3y ago

Afaik, nim was influenced by and originally developed in D-lang. Both are wonderful languages and a real joy to develop on. My ultimate dream is a language that's low level like zig but has the flexibility of nim.