[gyulai]

Several years back, I wanted to know what the hype was about with regard to Rust and started looking into Rust a bit. In the process I also stumbled across Nim and decided that Nim suited those needs that I might have had for Rust even better than Rust did.

The killer feature for me is that it transpiles both to C and to JavaScript and I like the clean Python-like syntax.

I now use Nim whenever I write a decent chunk of "pure logic". By that, I mean something that does something complex and useful without leaving the confines of its own codebase all too much. In those cases it's nice to have the option of portability between the C ecosystem and JavaScript ecosystem.

When I write "glue code" (and, unfortunately, most code that most people write falls into that category) where I basically just put bits of language ecosystem together in a trivial way to achieve something useful, then I use Python because for such tasks the sheer size of the language ecosystem is king.