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Does nim have a concurrency story yet? That’s what gave me pause last time I checked it out.
Yep. Concurrency is achieved via async await. Parallelism via `spawn`. Here is an example from my book that uses both: https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/blob/master/Chap...
I do not think all this language fragmentation is a good thing. A million little obscure languages that all at the end of the day do the same thing. Yeah, we need language research to keep devising new features and more efficient ways of programming, but this is different. I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting…
It’s no different from ecosystem/library fragmentation within a language. For example, there are at least six approaches to accelerating numerical code in Python (weave, plain C + ctypes, Cython, f2py, numexpr, numba) each with its own cognitive load, interop and debug problems (Julia advocates rejoice, but it’s coming for them too). It seems like a community needs huge incentives to avoid churn and fragmentation eg…
Why do you say that? The whole point of Julia is to create a language that's similar to Python in ease of development but is natively fast. Do you think it fails at this?
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What are Nim’s main weaknesses?
const hand* ^^ is that a pointer? Are we moving backwards?
So the whole expression just means "a public constant string (automatically inferred type) named `hand`".
I find the framing of “no big backers” kind of weird, considering they do have one big backer in a crypto currency startup that is providing the overwhelming majority of its funding. Sure it’s not the big coffers of Google, but it’s concerning that the entire language seemingly depends on the fates and desires of an incredibly volatile field. https://nim-lang.org/sponsors.html
A total investment of $19k probably doesn't qualify as a "big backer" when comparing to things like swift and typescript.
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Two developers at least. One of whom is in this very thread. It's a concern, yes, but actually has been around for more than a decade, and is showing absolutely no sign of slowing down or going into hibernation. I have just seen a ... competing language team spending developer time on purging the code of what they call ableism . apparently it's now offensive to talk of a sanity check ot to facetiously refer to OCD in…
Which competing language team? All I found on Google was this gist of someone saying "sanity check" should be avoided. ("health check, too) [1], and some issues and pull requests in projects that were not languages. One of the latter is clearly trolling to test Linus Torvalds' resolve to be polite [2][3][4][5], complaining about "ableist/saneist" terms, including "silly", on several of Linus' repositories. You can te…
I do not think all this language fragmentation is a good thing. A million little obscure languages that all at the end of the day do the same thing. Yeah, we need language research to keep devising new features and more efficient ways of programming, but this is different. I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting…
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Which competing language team? All I found on Google was this gist of someone saying "sanity check" should be avoided. ("health check, too) [1], and some issues and pull requests in projects that were not languages. One of the latter is clearly trolling to test Linus Torvalds' resolve to be polite [2][3][4][5], complaining about "ableist/saneist" terms, including "silly", on several of Linus' repositories. You can te…
Crystal. https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/commit/5c2894298612b...
> Thank you so much, it's so much more inclusive now. My rabbi will be pleased.
I do not think all this language fragmentation is a good thing. A million little obscure languages that all at the end of the day do the same thing. Yeah, we need language research to keep devising new features and more efficient ways of programming, but this is different. I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting…
This was before the obscure language C was invented.
And as far as debugging is concerned, debuggers are overused. Reading “Programmers at work” you see that 1. They used the equivalent of printf for debugging 2. Mostly they had not read TAOCP 3. They did not like C++.
I do not think all this language fragmentation is a good thing. A million little obscure languages that all at the end of the day do the same thing. Yeah, we need language research to keep devising new features and more efficient ways of programming, but this is different. I wish the world would get behind a couple well thought out languages that cover most programming needs (functional, systems/bare metal, scripting…
Who chooses?