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For me, personally, the biggest points for Nim are:

- "Transpiled" to C, with some options regarding runtime library, which means you can target any uController out there

- Good metaprogramming support

- Static and _strong_ typing

- Consequently, precise type aware function dispatch

- Type inference

- Good generics

Also, more stuff like covariants and contravariants and... maybe you just have a look-see? ;-)

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I'm already quite invested in Kotlin, and having a look at Elixir... on top of my regular work. Time is a limiting factor :-)

There are "concepts" which are like generics but still experimental. Are there any other generic programming facilities in nim?

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#concepts

> Are there any other generic programming facilities in nim?

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#generics

What I wanted to write was something like type restricted generics, apparently I ended my comment prematurely. Without concepts (interfaces), I find it hard to call this system "good generics" but there might be something I'm missing.

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