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[-] help@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

One big reason Nim never really caught on is because we've got lots of fast-ish languages with garbage collection (like Go, which sucks a lot of oxygen away from Nim IMO). Rust introduced a new concept to the mainstream that lets you program safely without a runtime hit for garbage collection.

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Ada would like a word with you ;)

[-] help@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

To my knowledge, Ada doesn't have an equivalent to Rust's borrow checker. I also think I covered that base by specifying "mainstream" ๐Ÿ˜€

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