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Why the project stalled? #8
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Sorry ... I missed this note from you. IMO ... its not that Rust is poorly suited, its just that Nim is suited much better. I found Nim to not only satisfy the requirements for writing a kernel (which Rust also does) but also I can actually get how the whole thing works. I attribute it primarily to the fact that it generates "readable" C code as its target. I can elaborate if you are interested. |
Yeah, some details would be nice! I'm considering using a modern language for systems programming and would like an opinion of experienced developer. |
From a feature set point of view I believe Rust and Nim are
This link has some more comparison data - You can take a look at the my xv6 source in Nim - I was able to make progress much faster in Nim. |
Thanks for showing me nim. Didn't even know it existed! |
It's named nimrod before, a long name , can not easily remember. but now, it named nim. |
Hi,
Sorry to create an issue about this, but I'm very interested in why you decided to abandon Rust for this task and use Nim instead.
Could you please tell us what are the challenges and why Rust is poorly suited to deal with them?
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