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I've been considering getting into Nim for a while now as something more lightweight/terse to write thin CLI utilities in. I'm glad to hear that it's performing well for this usecase. It's a very attractive alternative to Rust for it's simplicity and terseness.

I still haven't gotten around to picking it up though, these days I just use QuickJS for anything that needs to be reasonably portable and thin.

Maybe next side project...

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I would highly recommend it. Setup is incredibly easy (VSCode has great plugins for it), the language is simple to read/write and compiled Nim is very fast with small binaries. I also really like nimfmt to keep my code tidy so I don't need to worry about it. Nim compiles VERY quickly and errors seem to be easy to comprehend. It's definitely one of my go-to languages for most of my projects.

Nim is great for knocking out commandline apps, I recommend "cligen" for quick and clean options, or "docopt" for friendlier cli options. They feel "scripty" when you can begin with a couple lines and grow it up from there. I found it the easiest to learn. And difficulties getting my other favorite, D, on embedded and Haiku and OS/2 (which also have poor javascript support) was my prompt to give it a try. I found cross-compiling easy. But just as easy was having Nim installed on all my platforms.

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