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points by archargelod 6 hours ago | 0 comments

I feel like Nim is too expressive to be a good vibe-coding target. That is one feature that I think is generally good for people writing code and really bad for agents.

You can take a lot more "smart" shortcuts in Nim, that are hard to reason about, and probably even harder when an automated system writes them.

[–] cb321 6 hours ago

I very much agree at the stylistic and syntactic abstraction levels. One reason I don't do it myself is that I find chatbot "judgement" for such things awful, usually highly contaminated by weaker PLangs. To be fair, there is probably not much sampling data in several relevant directions. Honestly, I think it Araq's personal tastes in tooling drives people to vibe Nim, but I do hear about it a lot.