I only know a hand full of languages so make of that what you will. I came from a python background and hadn't learned a compiled language before, so I wanted to experiment. Tried Rust for quite a while, but found the syntax not clicking with me though a lot of ideas seemed intriguing (pattern matching and Result types). Didn't want to try C/C++ because I wasn't that hard into figuring out how memory works and at the same time was pretty shocked at how C considers types.
That only leaves go after that, which I heard about around the same time as nim. I started out with nim and I liked it enough so I stuck with it.
Why I use it over other languages? I feel like I can express myself in english readable sentences (which gives it the python vibe for me) and at the same time I have static typing, a really nice type system in general and very little chance of crap like nullpointers occurring.
My first ah-ha moment was pretty much 3 hours in when I noticed I could already already write simple stuff and only needed to consult the std lib docs here and there. The second was when I reimplemented a webserver backend that I previously had in Django (not for practical reasons, just to see how fast it could go even very little optimization) and found it performing roughly 2-5 times faster (measured by looking at request response time), despite having optimized Django's ORM to as few queries as physically possible to get the data I needed. (For reference: That's quite surprising given a decent chunk of that time is literally just network latency)
That only leaves go after that, which I heard about around the same time as nim. I started out with nim and I liked it enough so I stuck with it.
Why I use it over other languages? I feel like I can express myself in english readable sentences (which gives it the python vibe for me) and at the same time I have static typing, a really nice type system in general and very little chance of crap like nullpointers occurring.
My first ah-ha moment was pretty much 3 hours in when I noticed I could already already write simple stuff and only needed to consult the std lib docs here and there. The second was when I reimplemented a webserver backend that I previously had in Django (not for practical reasons, just to see how fast it could go even very little optimization) and found it performing roughly 2-5 times faster (measured by looking at request response time), despite having optimized Django's ORM to as few queries as physically possible to get the data I needed. (For reference: That's quite surprising given a decent chunk of that time is literally just network latency)