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Crab is Rust, but the last one...
Apparently it's called nim.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)
I'm pretty skeptical it could be as fast and safe as Rust without the added challenge. Like, even doing what Rust did was a big deal.
I could be wrong, but based on the Wikipedia article it seems like it’s more trying to be a python replacement than a rust/c++/Java/etc replacement. The big thing with rust is that it’s rules allow memory safety without a garbage collector, while unless I missed something it seems like nim just uses a garbage collector. Not that that’s necessarily some huge problem or anything, but you know, different purposes
So basically, what I'm hearing is that it's not fast like Rust. Yup, that tracks, this is just a guy stanning his favourite.