[bluejekyll]

> it can easily link against musl instead of libc for an even lighter footprint

I'm not sure if you were implying that it doesn't, but Rust also supports musl:

    $> rustup target list | rg musl
    aarch64-unknown-linux-musl
    arm-unknown-linux-musleabi
    arm-unknown-linux-musleabihf
    armv5te-unknown-linux-musleabi
    armv7-unknown-linux-musleabihf
    i586-unknown-linux-musl
    i686-unknown-linux-musl
    mips-unknown-linux-musl
    mipsel-unknown-linux-musl
    powerpc64le-unknown-linux-musl
    x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

[kungtotte]

I apologize if I worded my post weirdly. It was a list of things that make Nim a competitor to Rust, not things that Nim does that Rust doesn't.

There's a fair bit of overlap for obvious reasons: they're two languages suited for the same tasks, after all :)