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Re:Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in... by greyivy on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:49PM (#28332245)
Oh yikes. Can anyone shed some light on what this is about?
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Re:Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in... by tyingq on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:08PM (#28332436)
Nim compiles to C, but can also compile to JS:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/backends.html#backends-the-javascr...

It appears that the way it does that creates a lot of global vars and functions.

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