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isofruit

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    Comment #34094088

    Agree to disagree, I use inim all the time to test out those code snippets folks post in nim's discord to see what's broken in them :-P

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    Comment #34092451

    Actually a really good point! I entirely forgot about Ruby! Though in terms of competition that does still seem less crowded of a field as one where your other contenders are C, C+…

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    Comment #34092432

    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 …

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    Comment #34091502

    It can be. I would've loved to pick up Rust, the patterns for code structuring etc. that are evolving from it seem interesting to me. But getting the syntax right is just fairly di…

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    Comment #34091441

    I am looking forward to them supporting distinct DateTime types (basically used-defined clones of the DateTime type with custom behaviour). Currently using the constructor package …

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    Comment #34091038

    Given I used to be a python dev myself before I picked up nim and since then have helped out a fair bit of python-folks picking up nim, I'm not sure what that's based on. The fact …

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    Comment #34090941

    To be fair, python back then didn't have great competitors in its space. I guess Perl, but from what I still remember from Perl before I dropped it like a hot potato a couple days …

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    Comment #34090924

    To be fair, you can tell your IDE to just turn tabs into spaces and call it a day, that's an issue for all of 5 minutes. What you can't do is tell your IDE to interpret camel-case …

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    Comment #34090907

    Imo it goes beyond that. You have folks from Java etc. coming over with their camel-case as well as python folks with snake-case. Now despite both of them writing in their own styl…

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    Comment #34090833

    Given that you tend to use linters in those environments as well and that you can turn it off anyway, I'd disagree on that one. There are other factors that would make me hesitate …

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    Comment #34090806

    Agree to disagree. I don't want to force my users to use snake-case just because I use camel-case and vice versa. There's options to turn it off, options to turn it into a warning …

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    Comment #32347264

    Thanks for the Infos! For context: I used nimpy for a bit for a reimplementation on how Django hashes passwords, making use of one of python's std lib modules. In terms of seamless…

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    Comment #32340516

    I do not have any experience with C++ and thus none about its python interop, which makes it hard for me to compare it to nim's python interop which I do have some experience with.…

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    Comment #32340454

    Yeh, that tracks with my experience. I'd imagine nim to be a somewhat nice learning experience if one already is used to python and the indentation. And with nimpy the integration …

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    Comment #32340387

    Full agreement here. My past experience in the bioinformatics field taught me pretty much that "scientists" at large are just as afraid of the terminal as the average person. The s…

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    Comment #32340325

    You'd need to expand on possibilities because the only factor I could see where that's remotely true would be the current size of the ecosystem.

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    Comment #31929236

    Disclaimer: I have not written a single line of C/C++ in my life, nim was the first language that exposed me to lower level concepts essentially. I have a webpage-backend life in i…

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    Comment #30245275

    How can such a benchmark be in any way informative? How much am I allowed to optimize the nim code? How much am I allowed to optimize the Rust code? Am I allowed to just change nim…