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by gokr 3650 days ago
Hey! Thanks. Not me who put it here on HN though :)

Regarding Nim - IMHO the main big pro is the fact that I can piggy back on the GC, use several of Nim's features (dynamic dispatch using methods for example), target all three of C/C++/js. And finally, I can use the very good C/C++ wrapping capabilities of Nim. As you may know wrapping C++ is ... very hard, but if you let Nim compile via C++ it works great.

I also find Nim very, very nice to work in.

And yeah, I hope Spry will show some interesting results of mixing Rebol/Red ideas with Smalltalk. And I do need to study Rebol/Red more. ;)

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Also, Nim has very promising support for threads, threadpools, async stuff etc etc. And when I rewrite the Spry interpreter to be stackless I hope to be able to use a lot of those things too.