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by beagle3 2419 days ago
Do they preclude using e.g. NTFS (case preserving but insensitive) in your project for that reason? NTFS vs. ext4 has exactly the same kind of issues (and it has in fact caused security issues in cross-platform software.

Regardless, this does not preclude the use of Nim any more than a regulation saying "do not use preprocessor macros" preclude C because you might accidentally use #define. It just means you have to verify that you adhere to those regulations. Here's one tool[0] you can use to make sure your unconditional requirements are satisfied.

Nim would probably be precluded anyway based on age and popularity, and rightly so for tightly regulated industries -- but given some time, assuming it does grow in popularity, there is no inherent reason Nim would be precluded from any project that allows e.g. C++, Java, JavaScript or Go.

[0] https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nimfmt