dacjames

And thus could have been implemented as part of the existing client.

That mindset would seem to explain why Facebook creates more competing technologies than other players.

> I've heard of Nim before but haven't actually looked at it. Does it attempt to solve memory/data race safety at compile-time like Rust does?

Not in the general sense that Rust does. Nim has a (still experimental) parallel statement that can reason about some arithmetic operations and proves that array access is disjoint and thus safe.