Actually Nim solves some of the major safety problems with C -- with string garbage collection and array index checks (avoiding buffer overflows) for instance.

Actually Nim solves some of the major safety problems with C -- with string garbage collection and array index checks (avoiding buffer overflows) for instance. And fiddling with pointers which is typical for C is generally a bad programming style (imho). Nim translates to C, so you get plain C source code without fear of the dangers which can happen by direct coding in C.