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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by sergiotapia on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:34AM (#50485941)
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony

Check out Nimony effectively Nim 3.0 from the author. It's a top to bottom rethinking of Nim with all the lessons learned. I'm so hyped about it tbh

https://nim-lang.org/araq/nimony.html

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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by Fervicus on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:03PM (#50488185)
Intriguing. How usable is it right now?
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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by seanw444 on Friday November 13, 2026 @02:16PM (#50488362)
If they can get the tooling situation handled better with 3.0, Nim will be probably the best all-around programming language in my book. The only reason I tend to opt for Zig instead (and the reason the library ecosystem is pretty small) is that it just feels a little unpolished all over the place. But the core principles are just so good.

I don't mean that as an insult to Zig. Zig is amazing. But the ergonomics of Nim are just unbeatable.

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