Nim

“They finally shipped incremental compilation, nice compact sum types and other goodies.”

“All the benefits of GC for programming but it's much easier to control allocations and memory when desired.”

“Nim requires no memory annotations or semantics for good, safe default behavior.”

“The language is more expressive than Go and more productive for human coders, but in the age of LLMs this doesn't matter as much.”

“Nim's compiler just keeps evolving around unfinished and unpolished ideas never reaching a momentum.”

“there are "useful" (to someone ) things in the Nim stdlib not in either Python's or Go's”

“There are not many go-to libraries and its culture is not very collaborative.”

“Nim[0] is extremely fast with conventional GC and slightly faster with ARC/ORC[1].”

“then why should I not use Rust, Go, Zig, D, C, V, Ada, C++, Nim, Swift, Kotlin Native, Haskell”

“All of my time and energy is spent formulating a sound model rather than fiddling with configs or fighting obtuse features.”

“It's arguably the closest modern language (with a sizeable community) to the Wirthian languages.”

“Easy interop with C, native-speed performance, and a syntax very close to Python in both readability and how quickly you can get something working.”

“the tooling support of pretty dreadful. I ran into multiple compiler crashes”

“Readability comparable to Python but with strict static typing that LLMs can't”

“more expressive-convenient than C/++ to do all manner of things in the realm of systems programming”

“Nim looks a lot like Python with a first-class type system and compiles to many different targets, including wasm and C.”

“The language has well defined syntax, strong types, and I turned up the compiler strictness to the max”

“They drastically reduce the cost of focusing on data structures and writing obvious algorithms.”

“since Nim 2, the stdlib now is using ARC by default, which is deterministic and has advantages over conventional garbage collection”

“the resulting libraries are brittle (API-wise), and only really useful for specific use cases”

“Especially with Nim it's so easy to make quality libraries with a Codex/ClaudeCode and a couple hours as a hobby.”

“It makes it incredibly easy to manipulate almost any data in a functional, expression-oriented manner”

“Even the well-maintained, latest versions of less common software, like Nim compiler.”

“It's a compiled systems-programming language that feels like a scripting language”

“makes programming feel like so much less boilerplate ceremony than most alternatives”

“very rare compiler/PLang superpower (available at least in Nim 1, Nim 2) - `compiles`”

“Nim is Choice in many dimensions that other PLang's are insistently monosyllabic/stylistic about”

“Most of the time though I find it fairly obvious when programming in Nim where something comes from”

“Once you're familiar with the language and std lib, its almost as fast to write as python, but much faster”

“With ARC it's really just about as safe as Rust and most of the stdlib is fast by default.”

“the issues with Crystal, nim, zig, is that they have zero changes to be bigger.”

“Languages such as D and Nim (both greatly underappreciated) offer full-language compile-time interpretation.”

“it has powerful comptime/metaprogramming, statically typed, automatic memory management”

“Nim's macro system which originally were highly appealing (and easy) to me as a compiler guy, until I saw how other people find even simple examples completely opaque”

“has nice ergonomics, is easy to pick up but has enough depth to keep you busy for weeks on end”

“nim c -d=release can certainly be almost the same speed as -d=danger and is often within a few (single digits) percent.”

“the core development team focuses on shiny new things over fixing and documenting what already exists”

“Nim unfortunately has a toxic Dictator at the top, and his subordinates defend his behaviours.”

“Nim community was much healthier and friendly after the fork people and certain moderator leaving the project.”

“the edges are quite a bit rougher, and performance is exponentially better”