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		mjw1007 on March 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust is not a good C replacement I don't think they count as a "better C" for this purpose. I'm thinking of something aiming at the niche that C currently fills. Having a garbage collector doesn't fit that, and Nim doesn't look small (anything with both destructors and exceptions is getting into complications rather beyond C).

nimmer on March 25, 2019 | [–]

Regardless, I use Nim when I need the performance and memory footprint of C. GC is optional.

mjw1007 on March 26, 2019 | | [–]

Right, that's exactly the « it would be hard to compete against the alternative of using a small subset of {whatever} » case.

jefftime on March 26, 2019 | | | [–]

Can you use the standard library without GC?

nimmer on April 6, 2019 | | | [–]

Most of it.

chessturk on March 25, 2019 | [–]

Makes sense to me, thanks for answering.

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