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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production? by michaelcampbell on Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:35PM (#14432730)
> It produces fast dependency-free binaries

It does use glibc, right?

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production? by bruce_one on Sunday May 28, 2017 @06:05AM (#14433764)
The little bit of nim I've done used musl rather than glibc.

I think it's moderately flexible to what is used because it transpiles to c first (afaik?)

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production? by dom96 on Sunday May 28, 2017 @06:59AM (#14433889)
Indeed. It compiles to C so you have a lot of flexibility. glibc/musl isn't much of a dependency (except when you compile on a newer glibc leading to issues [1]), but I am still amazed at how easily I was able to produce a cross-platform executable for Windows (XP+ !!), macOS and Linux[2].

1 - https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/issues/15

2 - https://github.com/dom96/choosenim/releases

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