[pcwalton]

> - Seems as safe as Rust with much cleaner syntax and simpler semantics. (this is something we're actively quantifying at the moment). Easily 10x the productivity. _Almost_ beats Rust at its core strength.

> Less safety than Rust when doing manual memory management (hasn't been an issue and we believe unlikely to be an issue in practice).

One major safety issue with Nim is that sending garbage collected pointers between threads will segfault, last I checked (unless you use the Boehm GC). Moreover, Nim is essentially entirely GC'd if you want (thread-local) safety; there is no safety when not using the GC. So Nim is in a completely different category from Rust; Rust's "core strength" is memory safety without garbage collection, which Nim (or any other industry language, save perhaps ATS) does not provide at all.