> I was expecting with Nim effectively compiling to C as an intermediary.
C has nothing to do with performance, runtimes and libraries do. Nim has runtime overhead whereas C and Rust do not.
C has nothing to do with performance, runtimes and libraries do. Nim has runtime overhead whereas C and Rust do not.
Not expecting it to match Rust or C in performance, just surprised at the size of the gap.
Would be interesting to see what the generated C is like from the Nim code.
Just did a few quick tests. A hello world in nim is a one liner:
echo "hello world"
If you don't use automatically managed types like seq/string and ref, there is no GC underneath. And even then, the GC is just reference counting so no difference from Rust Rc/Arc.