Re:NimConf 2022 – Nim Online Conference
by anta40 on Friday October 21, 2022 @11:34AM
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I learnt a bit of Nim few years ago, but haven't continue it.
My understanding so far is unlike Go, Nim doesn't have concurrency built into the language/runtime?
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Hopefully it should get better soon-ish, but concurrency (and even parallelism aka threads) unfortunately is probably Nim's weakest point at the moment.
On the good side, compared to go, Nim's interop with C is fully transparent (since Nim uses C as a backend). This means easy access to C libraries, but also makes it very appropriate for embedded targets like microcontrollers (especially with its ARC memory-management system, which is static/deterministic automatic reference counting).