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stcredzero on June 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go channels, goroutines and GC available in Nim

If you front compilation with Go's parser, you could generate bog-standard Nim code from the AST.

stefantalpalaru on June 1, 2015 [–]

You can, but you'd be limiting yourself to pure Go. I'd rather have Go with Nim's generics, transpilation to C, macros, compile time computation, etc.

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