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When comparing Red/System vs Nim, the Slant community recommends Nim for most people. In the question“What are the best modern, compiled, garbage collected and minimalistic programming languages for developing fast, reliable desktop applications productively?” Nim is ranked 1st while Red/System is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Nim is:
Nim gains portability and optimization because it compiles to C, which offers a lot of choices from modern C compilers.
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Pros
Pro Built-in support for concurrency
Red has built-in support for concurrency and multi-core CPUs.
Pro Great portability and optimization
Nim gains portability and optimization because it compiles to C, which offers a lot of choices from modern C compilers.
Pro Python-like syntax
Readable, clean and familiar to Python developers.
Pro Cross-platform
Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Cons
Con Doesn't work on 64-bit OSes
Still hasn't upgraded to be 64-bit OS compatible.
Con Not ready for production
Red is still on version 0.6.0. Which means that it still has some way to go before being used in production and in large projects.
