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It's possible. I personally just hope that Araq and others keep working on it. Right now it's quite easy to use without a lot of libraries written in Nim, bec

• pcwalton 12y ago
  > Besides, I see Nim more as a 'secret weapon' sort of language, or something that individual programmers use. Rust is more of a 'big idea' language, so it makes sense a corporation is pushing it. I don't think that "big idea" languages [1] are necessarily the provenance of corporations/committees as opposed to individuals. If anything, the opposite tends to be true, as large languages such as C++ and C# have tended to grow to encompass more and more features over time as their feature sets expand to accommodate more and more stakeholders. Rust in particular started out as an individual project, with a set of design constraints—those of low-level memory-safe systems programming—that have remained unchanged throughout its lifetime. [1] I'm not really a fan of that term anyway, as "big ideas" are just design constraints, things that all languages have. Rust just happens to have a unique (among industry languages, save maybe ATS) set of them.
• def- 12y ago
  > Rust is more of a 'big idea' language, so it makes sense a corporation is pushing it. Araq just announced that Nim has financial backing now: http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/870 http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/870
  • Mikeb85 12y ago
    Fantastic. And thanks for that link. I was messing around with some 3D stuff in Nim, and he's working on 3D C++ stuff too I see...