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Re:Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programm... by alpaca128 on Friday November 25, 2022 @07:06PM (#33748373)
The "systems" label only means those languages can do a few more low-level things, nothing more. There's no reason not to use it for other things as well.
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Re:Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programm... by 3a2d29 on Friday November 25, 2022 @10:52PM (#33749734)
I know this is hammered to death on HN, but you could definitely argue memory safety is a reason not to use systems languages for anything else.

Granted though it means what you meant by "it". I read that as "a systems programming language", but if you specifically meant Nim then I think it can enable a GC.

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