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0 pointsrich_sasha3y ago0 comments

That's what crossed my mind too.

C++ and Rust are heavyweight and verbose, for ultimate control over execution. I have no Go experience but it seems to prefer simple over expressive.

I see that niche for Nim here: fast-ish, compiled, simple to use but also expressive.

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fwsgonzo3y ago

I added Nim support to an edge platform for that reason. I think it fits in with the others. Crucially it boils down to machine code and can be debugged with GDB.

girvo3y ago

Same reason we’re using Nim for our IoT sensor platforms firmware: it just boils down to C, so we don’t have to give up driver support or rewrite ESP-IDF from scratch.

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