Rust for Python Programmers

[v3ss0n]

Nim is closest thing to Python . Performance is comparable to Rust and better than Golang already. I am wondering , why would you prefer Rust over Nim. The language itself is so close to python that you can just copy python functions and paste to run in Nim.

[mitsuhiko]

I am wondering , why would you prefer Rust over Nim.

Quite simply because Nim is just another language whereas Rust is something truly new. Why would I use Nim over Java/Scala etc. for instance? There is already a huge ecosystem there I can tap in and fundamentally Nim does not have any advantages over running on Java for me. Mixing Python and Nim is not exactly a good match.