Nim VS rust

Compare Nim vs rust and see what are their differences.

Nim

Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority). (by nim-lang)

rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. (by rust-lang)
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Nim rust
355 2,777
16,737 100,462
0.7% 1.6%
9.9 10.0
3 days ago 3 days ago
Nim Rust
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Nim

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-07.

rust

Posts with mentions or reviews of rust. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-11.
  • Rust's New Sort Algorithms
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2025
  • KEON is a human-readable serde format that syntactic similar to Rust
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2025
    With some notable exceptions. I'll never love the turbofish [1] for example.

    [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/tests/ui/parse...

  • 2025’s Must-Know Tech Stacks
    17 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2025
    Rust
  • Loco 0.14 on Cathyos: 始め方
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2025
  • Loco 0.14 on Cathyos: Getting started
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Jan 2025
    Loco is a relatively new Rust web framework which first appeared around 2021. It is strongly inspired by Ruby on Rails, and designed to bring developers productivity as various functionality on routing, middlewares, and request handling. They aim to provide a modern and intuitive development experience.
  • Getting Started with Blockchain: A Guide for Beginners
    3 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2025
    Developer: Learn programming languages like Solidity (Ethereum) or Rust (Polkadot).
  • SSH port forwarding from within code
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2025
    Port forwarding is a common technique used to access some service behind jump host from your local machine. It is a daily bread of many administrative tasks. In this post I'll show how to create such connections on demand from within Raku or Rust code (without relying on ssh -L system command).
  • Optimizing uint64_t Digit Counting: A Method that Beats Lemire's by up to 27%
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jan 2025
    This is for integer log 10, but could be adapted for number of digits. It needs a wrapper for 64 bit to invoke it multiple times, but most numbers in a JSON are small, so it might even be competitive; it needs only 4 cycles with enough instruction level parallelism.

    I gathered this idea from the output of a superoptimizer, it was fun to figure out how it works. For spoilers, see [1].

    [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/library/core/s...

  • Weird Rust Expressions
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2025
  • Four limitations of Rust's borrow checker
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2024
    At least based on the comments on lobste.rs [0] and /r/rust, these seem to be actively worked on and/or will be solved Soon (TM):

    1. Checking does not take match and return into account: I think this should be addressed by Polonius? https://rust.godbolt.org/z/8axYEov6E

    2. Being async is suffering: I think this is addressed by async closures, due to be stabilized in Rust 2024/Rust 1.85: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/9MWr6Y1Kz

    3. FnMut does not allow reborrowing of captures: I think this is also addressed by async closures: https://rust.godbolt.org/z/351Kv3hWM

    4. Send checker is not control flow aware: There seems to be (somewhat) active work to address this? No idea if there are major roadblocks, though. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/128846

    [0]: https://lobste.rs/s/4mjnvk/four_limitations_rust_s_borrow_ch...

    [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1hjo0ds/four_limitati...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Nim and rust you can also consider the following projects:

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

carbon-lang - Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)

go - The Go programming language

Odin - Odin Programming Language

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

Elixir - Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

Rustup - The Rust toolchain installer

haxe - Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

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