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Re:Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I by blackrock on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:48AM (#25527394)
Fascinating. When will they do it? I would prefer it generate direct machine code instead.
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Re:Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I by nimmer on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:00PM (#25530901)
> I would prefer it generate direct machine code instead.

Why? C has been the best choice for Nim so far.

Compiling with Nim+GCC is much faster than Rust, it generates applications with comparable performance, and it supports way more architectures.

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