[justin66]

I'm curious what's similar to pascal about it? It's garbage collected, it compiles to C or JavaScript, and its syntax is inspired by Python, so I just wonder what is left.

[dmux]

From https://nim-lang.org/features.html:

> Oberon-inspired visibility markers

> Pascal-inspired type sections for leaner definitions

While Oberon isn't Pascal, they're both Wirth languages that share many commonalities.