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rayman22201

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    Comment #32347734

    I was pleasantly surprised to see support for Nim as a task language! very cool! Particularly considering your target market of developers with corporate education budgets, I expec…

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    Comment #26556915

    This is a response to both you and the grandfather comment. Nim now has ARC/ORC, which is a reference counting scheme similar to Swift. This is not a "generational GC" like Java, G…

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    Comment #25165714

    Nim tried regions based memory management and ended up going a different direction. The feature still exists, but the core devs ended up considering it a bit of a dead end: https:/…

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    Comment #24849977

    This is currently being remedied as we speak: https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/250 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/15287

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    Comment #22780710

    As I said in another comment, the familiar python like syntax, while having the potential for much better performance. Many data scientists are familiar with Python. They can write…

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    Comment #22780649

    Did you see the parent comments about the new -gc:arc? It's suitable for hard real time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA32Wxl59wo

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    Comment #22776346

    This is definitely being worked on (slowly but steadily) and the initial results are very impressive. See: https://mratsim.github.io/Arraymancer/

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    Comment #22774209

    The major features are: Python like syntax, Lisp like macro system, potential for C like performance (YMMV of course). This is my person opinion here: Nim is part of the "new gener…

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    Comment #22772708

    Depends on your organization more than tooling. Even if you have the tool, your orgs security policy may not allow using it. You may not have an environment that allows switching c…

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    Comment #22772615

    yup! That is the one :-)

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    Comment #22772588

    choosenim is still supported :-) The idea is more like the gcc -std flag (gcc -std=gnu++11 for example). to emulate certain versions to ease upgrading.

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    Comment #22772155

    I would say gc:arc beta quality. Very usable for many programs, but needs more battle hardening. Please try it and send bug reports if you find them! That's how we improve!

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    Comment #22772100

    As others have said, Nim has plugabble garbage collectors, some are quite advanced. In addition there is active work on a swift like reference counting, lifetime based memory manag…

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    Comment #21393667

    Have you checked the latest documentation recently? There has been some really good work in the past few months to improve all these areas. What doc issues are the biggest pain poi…

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    Comment #21062846

    Audio programming in Nim is completely possible and reasonable. Here is an example of a super collider plugin written entirely in Nim with the GC turned off: https://forum.nim-lang…