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10263 :: Can Nim be considered an independent language?

• froeling (orginal) [2023-06-10T08:43:33+02:00] view original

  Hi, I wanted to ask you something. So Nim can be considered a language in its own right? And the fact that it is translated into cpp, c, js is done in order to expand the possibilities of the language?

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• mratsim (orginal) [2023-06-10T09:34:51+02:00] view original

  So Nim can be considered a language in its own right?

  What would it be if Nim wasn't a language?

  independent

  What do you mean by independent?

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• termer (orginal) [2023-06-10T10:38:58+02:00] view original

  Well, Nim is objectively self-hosted as it's written in Nim. If you're meaning the fact that it needs an intermediary compiler would imply that it's not independent, I'll disagree with you because other languages that people consider independent such as Rust depend on LLVM, which is in fact an intermediary compiler. The only difference in Nim's case is that the compiler is a separate binary, as opposed to a statically linked library.

  So do I consider it an "independent" language? Yes.

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-06-10T10:40:17+02:00] view original

  There is also NLVM which uses LLVM directly, just like Rust does.

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• froeling (orginal) [2023-06-10T11:00:23+02:00] view original

  OK, so nim is a language in its own right, like python, rust, c, cpp and more?

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• SolitudeSF (orginal) [2023-06-10T11:06:09+02:00] view original

  what does that even mean?

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-06-10T11:06:47+02:00] view original

  so nim is a language in its own right, like python, rust, c, cpp and more?

  Yes.

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• froeling (orginal) [2023-06-10T11:10:35+02:00] view original

  ok, thx for answer. have a nice day

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• auxym (orginal) [2023-06-10T15:06:15+02:00] view original

  https://peterme.net/is-nim-a-transpiler.html

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