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Discussion on: Why you should consider the Nim programming language

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Eli

hmm, interesting... Can I make a programming language it in? If so what are some examples(don't have to be a big programming language)? Making a programming language is the way to really test the languages abilities

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Ali Ali

actually learn low level programming like c and web assembly it could help

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Nikola Stojaković

Umm, not really. You can make a programming language in pretty much any Turing complete language. By that logic we would be able to say that both JavaScript and Haskell are equally powerful, which clearly isn't the case.

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Jarred Kenny

You could definitely write a compiler in Nim, but as Nikola said you could do so in any turing complete language. I would argue that writing a compiler in Nim would be more fun than doing so in C!

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Skaruts • Edited

Nim's compiler itself is written in Nim. That means yes to your question. :)