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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by quotemstr on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:35AM (#10579505)
> Nim has the advantage of zero overhead to C,

Untrue. Nim requires the use of a garbage collector.

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Re:Which language has the brightest future for replacing C: ... by progman on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:51PM (#10583860)
No. Counter example from http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/:

  # Because Nim compiles to C, FFI is easy:

  proc strcmp(a, b: cstring): cint {.importc: "strcmp", nodecl.}

  let cmp = strcmp("C?", "Easy!")
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