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biggest con of Nim - no one uses it, so you will probably hit a toolchain/compiler error which will be very frustrating

too similar to Go to not go with the 100x community size Go brings with it

Hey I do, and report bugs which eventually are all getting fixed. Besides me (who's that guy anyway) there are a lot more experienced programmers who have built amazing things with Nim. Arraymancer, a deep learning library comes to mind and fidget which is an UI library, it's remarkable because all it's dependencies were written from scratch in Nim. Not to forget the Ethereum client nimbus and all the other companies using Nim in production. Perhaps give it a shot?

It's far more enjoyable than Go. I use Go at work, Nim at home. A smaller community, of course without Google's backing, but it is growing.

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