Re: What does "direct hardware access" in Nim mean?

[Krux02]

It means that when hardware has mapped itself to some data in memory, nim can 
just read it and use it. I don't know how such things work in Python, but in 
java it is always a big hassle, because java always needs these buffer objects 
that on one hand give what you want to do with pointers, but with a lot of 
overhead. Also calling into C from Java is always a pain, because you can't 
just call into C functions. This is supposed to be a much smoother experience 
in Nim.