> In the general case I think you underestimate how performant JavaScript JITs are these days.
No, I'm well aware of JS and WASM performance, internals, and pitfalls.
> For 99.9% of use cases the performance is enough.
Again, it depends on your perspective and requirements.
Statistically, PHP is enough for most people so why use TypeScript?
At the edges of the resources bell curve however the details do matter.
It's not enough to say that for those concerns you must use different language and potentially a whole different set of semantics, intricacies, libraries and workflows.
> I think we need to think bigger. Embedded is far too small a niche to be considered to be Nim's killer feature
That wasn't my point, and ironically you might be underestimating how much minimising power and resource usage drives much of the modern world.
Memory/storage + CPU ticks == money.
My point is that a language that can act as a universal tool without sacrificing efficiency, productivity, or extensibility (via AST macros), is itself a 'killer feature'. Nim hits that sweet spot of being easy to read and write as well as 'close to the metal'. It lets me target JS, embedded, and natively interface with C and C++ ABI. That gives me a lot of options with one language. There are other languages that have some of these traits, but not all together in a nice package IMO.
> especially when this space is already dominated by Rust
You mean C?
No, I'm well aware of JS and WASM performance, internals, and pitfalls.
> For 99.9% of use cases the performance is enough.
Again, it depends on your perspective and requirements. Statistically, PHP is enough for most people so why use TypeScript? At the edges of the resources bell curve however the details do matter. It's not enough to say that for those concerns you must use different language and potentially a whole different set of semantics, intricacies, libraries and workflows.
> I think we need to think bigger. Embedded is far too small a niche to be considered to be Nim's killer feature
That wasn't my point, and ironically you might be underestimating how much minimising power and resource usage drives much of the modern world. Memory/storage + CPU ticks == money.
My point is that a language that can act as a universal tool without sacrificing efficiency, productivity, or extensibility (via AST macros), is itself a 'killer feature'. Nim hits that sweet spot of being easy to read and write as well as 'close to the metal'. It lets me target JS, embedded, and natively interface with C and C++ ABI. That gives me a lot of options with one language. There are other languages that have some of these traits, but not all together in a nice package IMO.
> especially when this space is already dominated by Rust
You mean C?