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Well if you have decent tools to debug them, why should he be wary?

Well the biggest concern for most is null pointers, so invoking not nil on the pointers would suffice for most

when --nilChecks:On become a thing, dereferencing null pointers will be like Java, a NilError (NullPointerException in Java). This is why I said it's as safe mainstream languages t…

Since when were we comparing Nim and Rust? yes Rust is more safe than Nim, but that comes with tradeoffs. You are obviously not reading the whole thread about me bringing up (multi…

> Because it isn't true Did you not see the other person who just said that? > Strawman ... the comment was about scripting languages. I do not have a clue what you are trying to s…

I never said that Nim is safe/ doesnt have safe areas in the language. But at this stage of development with Nim, it really focuses on the Language goals rather than anything else …

As stated before in this thread, there _will_ be nil Checks in the future which will result in NilErrors or you can just annotate it with `not nil` right now and it will never be n…

I probably should have been more clear, but I think it's safe to say that unlike C/C++, Nim can handle these types of issues like other languages that deal with pointers (Java, Go …

It really depends on how you define "safe". Nim will allow you to deref null pointers (unless you annotate it with `not nil`, then it can never be nil, this results in compile erro…

As stated before, there are ways to avoid them and ways that Nim will soon handle them, but do you know how many other languages deref a NULL pointer? Unlike C, this does not resul…

Uhh that's not much of an answer...

Yes Rust is more safe than Nim, I'm not arguing that. I'm also not arguing that Nim is as safe as languages with automatic memory management. EDIT: Also, Nim is planning on turning…

Do you have any specific examples of these unsafetiness in Nim?

Why not? I'm interested to know because in my opinion I don't see it any less safe than languages that don't have automatic memory management and/or languages like Rust.

Nim is as safe as any other language. Perhaps it's not as safe as Rust but that brings specific trade offs most people dont wan't to deal with. I don't understand why people think …

A more general approach to shared memory via lockable heaps is a feature Nim seems will implement soon.

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