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by nimmer 2929 days ago
> Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python. > The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different

On a practical level, they are close enough to let you convert Python code to Nim with reformatting and replacing instead of doing a complete rewrite.

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Thank you, this is what I meant when I said similar to Python. Someone with Python familiarity should have zero issues with writing a Nim program and will mostly feel comfortable with the syntax.