What are the benefits of using Nim over any other language?
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#42What are the benefits of using Nim over any other language?
There is a very terse and pleasant syntax that reminds people of Python, but it compiles to C and is very efficient, and binding to C code has no cost and is very easy as a result.
garbage collection is optional and configurable.
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The stdlib not working without GC, making not truly optional, is one of the main reasons I stopped using nim - though I haven't checked if this is better in some time.
What were you planning to develop? This should help me figure out whether the stdlib still has an issue for that use case without a GC.
Embedded code, modules for use in higher level languages - and this is the killer, memory management in "mixed" contexts
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
The stdlib not working without GC, making not truly optional, is one of the main reasons I stopped using nim - though I haven't checked if this is better in some time.
Well it works without GC, but memory is never freed :)
Right, I'm sorry, I suffer a narrower definition of "works" :)