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Nim fits most of those descriptors, and it’s become my favorite language to use. Like any language, it’s still a compromise, but it sits in a really nice spot in terms of compromises, at least IMO. Its biggest downsides are all related to its relative “obscurity” (compared to the other mentioned languages) and resulting small ecosystem.

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The advantage of Fil-C is that it's C, not some other language. For the problem domain it's most suited to, you'd do C/C++, some other ultra-modern memory-safe C/C++ system, or Rust.

I agree. Nim is memory safe, concise, and fast. In my view, Nim lacks a very clear memory management strategy: it supports ARC, ORC, manual (unsafe) allocation, move semantics. Maybe supporting viewer options would be better? Usually, adding things that are lacking is easier than removing features, specially if the community is small and if you don't want to alienate too many people.

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