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### Philosophy
The key to understanding Nim is that Nim was not designed to be as fast as C, but to be much safer. Many of the design-decisions are based on making it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
The key to understanding Nim is that Nim was designed to be as fast as C, but to be much safer. Many of the design-decisions are based on making it harder to shoot yourself in the foot.
In Python there are no pointers (everything is treated as a reference).
While Nim does give you pointers, Nim gives you other, safer tools for your everyday needs, while pointers are mostly reserved for interfacing with C and doing low-level system programming.