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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Crab is Rust, but the last one...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm pretty skeptical it could be as fast and safe as Rust without the added challenge. Like, even doing what Rust did was a big deal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I could be wrong, but based on the Wikipedia article it seems like it’s more trying to be a python replacement than a rust/c++/Java/etc replacement. The big thing with rust is that it’s rules allow memory safety without a garbage collector, while unless I missed something it seems like nim just uses a garbage collector. Not that that’s necessarily some huge problem or anything, but you know, different purposes

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