Most scripting languages have miserable performance characteristics and lack native types. The beauty of Nim is it isn't a scripting language, it just looks like it is.
Nim isn't C/C++, but it performs like it is C/C++. Nim isn't Golang, either, but it compiles programs like Go does, down to a self-contained binary with no dependencies. You can even statically link a Nim program against musl libc to ship without even a dependency on glibc.
This puts a completely new spin on writing performant code - just skip the C and write your code in pure Nim. It's a lot like writing Python except you produce comparable results to what you would get from writing your code in C or Go.
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Most scripting languages have miserable performance characteristics and lack native types. The beauty of Nim is it isn't a scripting language, it just looks like it is.
Nim isn't C/C++, but it performs like it is C/C++. Nim isn't Golang, either, but it compiles programs like Go does, down to a self-contained binary with no dependencies. You can even statically link a Nim program against musl libc to ship without even a dependency on glibc.
This puts a completely new spin on writing performant code - just skip the C and write your code in pure Nim. It's a lot like writing Python except you produce comparable results to what you would get from writing your code in C or Go.