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Current stable version2.0.0
PlatformsWindows, MacOS/iOS, Linux /Android/Termux, *BSD, Solaris/SmartOS, HaikuOS, lots of others
LicenseMIT
GZipped size14,2 MB
IDE Supporthttps://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/editor-support
CPUAll CPU architectures that have an ANSI C compiler or JavaScript interpreter
Top critics consensusWhitespace blues, inconsistent, weird, confusing, not mainstream, unsafe
Compiles toC, JavaScript
Pros
Pro Very fast execution time, could be compared to C (thanks partially to C translation)
Pro Easy to integrate with another languages
You can use Nim with any language that can be interfaced with C.
There's a tool which helps you to create new C and C++ bindings for Nim - c2nim
Also, you can use Nim with Objective C or even JavaScript (if you're compiling for these backends).
Pro Concurrency and Parallelism
Nim uses async await to achieve concurrency. Like C#, Python, Hack, Dart, Kotlin, JavaScript and (soon) Rust (in fact, the Rust implementation is worthy of mention as it originally intended to be implemented via macros, it seems they gave up on that for now though. Nim's implementation is still 100% macro-based).
Nim has spawn for parallelism, and you can also use channels if you wish.
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Recommendations
Nim
Recommended 3 years ago
Pro
Multi paradigmPro
Compile-time executionPro
Easy to readPro
Really crossplatformPro
Great metaprogramming featuresPro
Easy to integrate with another languagesPro
Strict typingPro
Built-in Unicode supportPro
Type interferencingPro
Has built-in unittest modulePro
Garbage-collectedPro
Supports UFCS (Unified Function Call Syntax)Pro
Has built-in async supportPro
Concurrency and ParallelismPro
Very fast execution time, could be compared to C (thanks partially to C translation)