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by kxo 4131 days ago
Have you seen Nim? (http://nim-lang.org)
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Nim should look very attractive to Python developers. It's a good looking language that has positioned itself in a good market: static typing, looks and feels like scripting (not verbose), and almost systems level (has GC).

I haven't got any experience with Go development, but from those I know that use it, I hear nothing but promising things about Nim. "Modern" is a word that gets used.

Between Rust and Nim, we're starting to see some really clever new languages that fix common pain points. Both of these are so neat it makes me feel as though we're in a programming language boom right now.

While it is not the case of nim, I tend to think LLVM enabled a lot of this "boom".

It gives you a high quality set of components that cover a big bunch of the things you need when implementing a compiler. Energy can be spent in the language itself.