Via HN
https://github.com/andreaferretti/on-rust-and-nim
The original email
I hope you don't mind if I contact you directly, and ignore if
you're offended, but I saw your post on the parasail email list
and looked at your KMeans benchmark.
In particular, I was interested in your statement that rust was
hard and that you found Nim much easier. I'm interested in both
and did some additional searching and found this from Dennis
Felsing and he too likes Nim a lot.
I was wondering if you could expand on your dislike of Rust?
Again, feel free to ignore this email.
My answer
Hi,
I will be happy to expand. First, I should make clear that I do
not "dislike" Rust. It is just that, while I appreciate some
ideas in theory, in practice i have found it hard to use.
TL;DR:
Rust has good theoretical ideas, but they do not seem to
translate to a very usable language.
Nim is more rough in the edges, some features interact in
unexpected ways, and the language in general in bigger, but it is
far easier, and in general it feels much more practical.
I would choose Nim for projects where I can afford a GC, and
evaluate case by case for other projects.
