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by dom96 2068 days ago
> Any of these is preferred for API/Web development?

I often wonder why anyone would use a language like Zig or Rust for Web development. I am very much biased in favour of Nim here, but to me in general a non-GC'd language seems like overkill for web development. So I would rule those languages out straight away.

I can't speak to Elixir, likely the main difference will be the lack of a mature Django-like framework. I'm assuming that Elixir has one, whereas Nim doesn't. If you're looking for a fun project, I would love to see that made for Nim and happy to give pointers if you need them :)

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Indeed Phoenix is a great web framework for Elixir. Idk that I'd be qualified to tackle something like building a web framework but I'd be curious enough to look into it :)