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Neat! Another compile-to-C language. As someone who's using Nim in production building embedded firmware, this is such a handy feature for us. Being able to use the language wherever C can be used is huge, and Nelua looks like it produces even more human-readable output than Nim with -d:danger does, impressive stuff!

The interop benefits of compile-to-C are so useful for my work that it's always exciting to see another language take advantage of it. Of course it has some downsides, but being able to leverage existing C libraries (source-based or binary-libs) with the worlds simplest bindings is fantastic, even when those source based libraries do really funky things with macros and such. Inspecting the C output of the language to ensure the binding matches is great :)



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