"The risk is being frustrated and giving up. But doing something you're
intrinsically curious and motivated about also give you strength to overcome
the obstacles. Though don't hesitate to take a break if you're stuck, you can
try a new language or a small project or do something else before coming back."
This++
There is so much noise and hype around using X or Y language because there are
people trying to get you to buy in to their ecosystem and satisfy their own
interests, take economic rents from you or sooth their own FUD/FOMO....
Follow your own interests, curiosity, what helps you learn and achieve what you
want to do. It doesn't have to be a binary choice, use nim, c#, rust, zig...
and you will pick up different ideas that will make you a better programmer.
A note on benchmarks, speed is not the only thing that you can take away.
Benchmarks also serve as a way to learn X in Y minutes.
Personally: I appreciate code that is readable. Being able to decipher what you
did or what someone else did months ago is important to;
* Writing code with fewer bugs, both from a code and business logic POV.
(Just because its memory safe or runs without crashing doesn't mean the code
actually does what you or the business want it to do)
* Writing more efficient code (it seems that "Efficient, expressive, elegant"
kind of goes hand in hand)
* Writing code that is easier to maintain, share and extend.
and nim helps me achieve this.
A quick pros/cons IMO: C#
* pros; big eco system support, huge financial backing, industry standards,
tooling
* cons; needing a runtime like mono, c# redistribute, confusing
asp.net/asp.core, reflection system is slow, it's not fun to write.
Nim
* pros; fun to write, easy to read STD & packages, package management is
simple and fast, binaries are fast and small, easy to read & write, fast
prototyping, flexible, macros
* cons; flexible, macros, smaller eco system, tooling
All that said, if you are concerned about time preference lean into the
language that has a more mature ecosystem in what you are trying to achieve.
Games (UE4 -> c++, Unity -> c#), Data sci(python, R...), Websites frontend(JS,
TS)...
If you are looking for a Harry Potter sorting hat kind of answer,
* Write some small identical toy program in some languages that you like.
* That covers things like; type/object creation, string manipulation,
maths, random, networking, async and threading...
* Example: A small server/client cli chat application.
* Take a break
* Rewrite the program in your own words (pseudo code).
* Compare the languages and lean into the language that looks closer to your
pseudo code
Hope this helps
