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Comment by graemep

11 hours ago

So the big advantage of nimic is that code remains valid Python and all valid Python cam be compiled?

The transpile to a language that transpiles to C approach is unusual. Downsides of that other than slower compilation?

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dima-quant  9 hours ago

Not quite "all valid Python." Just to be clear: nimic is a strict, statically typed subset of Python. At this stage, the downside of having Nim as an intermediate step is not really a slower compilation, as Nim compiler is very fast, but more like: debugging executable, might involve line numbers of the intermediate Nim or C source code; the need to install Nim compiler for development; memory management (currently it is ORC/ARC or manual in Nim, no borrow checker yet)