Ask HN: Next programming language to learn: Nim vs. D?

Post by dom96 » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 12:23 PM UTC

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Other than maturity, what are the reasons you've chosen to go with D (and are now choosing to pursue Zig)?

What I want in a language of this class is some ability to transition code from a slow/dynamic/generalized/exploratory phase to fast/static/specialized/checked. Both D and Nim offer features of that nature. (Something like Rust omits itself by forcing memory into a central role, leading to a lot of annotation boilerplate - it's correct for writing Servo or similarly complex parallelized systems, but I am not writing…

Post by mabynogy » Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 8:34 PM UTC

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Probably yeah as it's done by Cray. The main feature of Chapel is to handle well the many levels of parallelism.

But then I would recommend Pony which is even better on parallelism.

Post by 3rdAccount » Sat, Jun 16, 2018, 2:00 PM UTC

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Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python. The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different. I came from a strong Python background and now I prefer Nim to Python as a general purpose language and especially for writing scripts. Nim is highly productive and with excellent type safety. The compiler is relatively fast though maybe…

> Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python. > The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different On a practical level, they are close enough to let you convert Python code to Nim with reformatting and replacing instead of doing a complete rewrite.