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Pointer Free Programming and the Future of Nim

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What do ParaSail, "modern" C++ and Rust have in common? They focus on "pointer free programming" (ok, maybe Rust doesn't, but it uses similar mechanisms). In this blog post I am exploring how we can move Nim into this direction. My goals are:

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