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Oh please please no! Nim is almost impossible to debug at a low level and you have no fine-grained control over its performance or behavior. It's also far less well understood than C, which is more boring and the subject of decades of conservative development. I'm also not sure what kind of support nim has for freestanding programs.



Can you elaborate? I've never had problems debugging it, you can use lldb or gdb to do it.

You have a hell of a lot of control over its performance and behaviour. Are there instances where you found that wasn't the case?

As far as the understanding of C goes, I can agree with that. But we are discussing rewriting sqlite in something else after all.


Maybe you can reach out via email, it's in my profile. I'd rather not tear into Nim in this thread, we're getting pretty off-topic.


Done.




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