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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by amelius on Sunday August 21, 2016 @01:54PM (#12331885)
> Nim is a very good language that actually accomplishes the simplicity Go wanted imo.

Does it have "cheap threads", like offered by Go?

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Re:What Golang Is and Is Not by dom96 on Sunday August 21, 2016 @03:10PM (#12332247)
Kind of. Nim offers a thread pool for CPU intensive tasks[1] and async await for IO intensive tasks. Currently, the two don't really mix but work is ongoing to change that.

1 - http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#parallel-spawn

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