Author of rust book explores Nim

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

Clarification - author of the project unix in rust, not a book.  
He is a beginner in both rust and Nim.

On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:12:00 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
> Via HN
>
> https://github.com/andreaferretti/on-rust-and-nim
>
> The original email
> I hope you don't mind if I contact you directly, and ignore if 
> you're offended, but I saw your post on the parasail email list 
> and looked at your KMeans benchmark.
>
> In particular, I was interested in your statement that rust was 
> hard and that you found Nim much easier. I'm interested in both 
> and did some additional searching and found this from Dennis 
> Felsing and he too likes Nim a lot.
>
> I was wondering if you could expand on your dislike of Rust?
>
> Again, feel free to ignore this email.
>
> My answer
> Hi,
>
> I will be happy to expand. First, I should make clear that I do 
> not "dislike" Rust. It is just that, while I appreciate some 
> ideas in theory, in practice i have found it hard to use.
>
> TL;DR:
>
> Rust has good theoretical ideas, but they do not seem to 
> translate to a very usable language.
> Nim is more rough in the edges, some features interact in 
> unexpected ways, and the language in general in bigger, but it 
> is far easier, and in general it feels much more practical.
> I would choose Nim for projects where I can afford a GC, and 
> evaluate case by case for other projects.