hi all im relatively new to programming, mainly out of an interest in game development. i've only been learning since about a year plus, and started with c#, and have also recently picked up c++, even though it has been highly discouraged to do so. i still want to learn it anyway because so much stuff is built with c++ and also because i just want to. i like both languages and i think im somewhat aware of the controversy around these languages.
so im pretty much a newbie but from what i've been reading, nim sounds like a pretty nice language to pick up as well. i read a lot of good things about it and ive gone over a few tutorials. im going to start the exercism course on it soon i think. ive a bit of an obsession with performance and cleanliness. especially the type of software im interested in working is performance-critical. i have a interest in writing low level stuff. nim seems ideal. but i wonder how c# stacks up to nim. maybe i should do more tests. but some test programs ive recently written, particularly string heavy ones, c# seems faster than nim by quite a bit. for example it seems string manipulation (like concatenation) is a lot faster in c# than in nim, and even way faster in c++ also this benchmarks website (admittedly i dont know a whole lot about benchmarks and how much i can understand from them) seems to place c# quite a bit ahead of nim in more tests than i would've believed based on what i've heard about nim's performance: <https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/nim-vs-csharp> but i do like how nim programs consistently have few lines of code than the same program in really most other languages which seems like a good thing i dont know what timeout means in this context. does it mean the program failed to complete at all? anyway long story short i was wondering why should a c# programmer, with all the recent performance improvements that come with .net 7, consider more seriously committing to nim?
