[sergiotapia]

I think a more interesting comparison is Zig vs Nim. Where Nim beats or at the very least matches performance against Zig in multiple tests, while having an infinitely nicer, friendlier syntax.

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/zig-vs-ni...

I love Nim so much, I wish it became more popular somehow. Unfortunately it has stagnated in popularity.

[Buttons840]

I think Nim looks good, but I'm more likely to learn Rust or Zig personally. I've tried to put my finger on why that is, and I think it's because Nim looks like another good language that is just good all around, it makes good trade-offs and finds a local optimum being good at everything. A lot of language have tried this though, I've seen it all before. Rust did something new, they accepted that "yeah, our language might be really painful to write your seat-of-the-pants business logic in" and they did the borrow checker stuff. Zig is similar, keeping many of the pains of C, but making some important improvements.

[hugs]

I feel the same way. I wish Nim was more popular, but I'm not letting that stop me from using it. It's already extremely useful enough. I spent the last few weeks writing Nim code (specifically an OpenCV binding that wraps just the C++ libraries I need). Nim let's me write fast, compiled, "Pythonic" code. And the INim interactive shell let's me program "1 line at a time" the same way I would with the Python REPL or JavaScript console.

[danielEM]

That pythonic syntax is something that prevents Nim to gain more popularity. I think it would be a great move from Nim side to introduce dual syntax support: python like and c/d/java/JavaScript/typescript/go/rust/zig ... like

[cb321]

You can often/usually put ()s around things if you want. It's just an uncommon style. (Much like you can format bracey code like lisp with the close brackets bunched up all at the end of one line instead of one per line, but people rarely do.)

[hugs]

And yet, it didn't hold Python back, based on the current TIOBE index rankings.

[lucidrains]

same, I am too old to really care if others cannot see this as nearly the perfect language

[jadbox]

Afaik, nim was influenced by and originally developed in D-lang. Both are wonderful languages and a real joy to develop on. My ultimate dream is a language that's low level like zig but has the flexibility of nim.