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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Crab is Rust, but the last one...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Apparently it's called nim.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)

Looking at the Wikipedia article, it seems like it has some weird syntax choices. And even though it compiles to C code, I'm not convinced that it's as fast as C or Rust, since it has a garbage collector.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 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 2 years 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

[–] potatoBoy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can compile to C which then compiles using your favourite compiler. So it can operate at the speed of C

And the new memory management system is similar to rusts system (and can be fully disabled if you want manual memory management)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can compile to C which then compiles using your favourite compiler. So it can operate at the speed of C

Technically, it all compiles to assembly, but Python is still a lot slower than C or Rust. Speed is lost along the way through those layers of abstraction.

And the new memory management system is similar to rusts system (and can be fully disabled if you want manual memory management)

So it doesn't have a garbage collector? I'm going to have to actually look into this myself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I think it transpiles to C so theoretically it could be quite fast, but I doubt the generated C is as fast as manually written C or Rust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

OH… NIM NIM NIM NIM NIM FUCKING NIM