Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I
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Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I
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#2This was a wonderful read. I learned a fair bit that I didn't know about Nim before and there are a few very useful tips in there.
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#3Excellent! Lots of good tips.
The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't.
Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Python which have lots of special cases.
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#4Excellent! Lots of good tips. The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't. Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Pytho…
Nim is heavily inspired by Wirth languages, where you have the same capabilities to do low level programming, without the traps of C derived languages.
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#5Excellent, this is the kind of content I visit HN for!
Re: Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I
#6Excellent! Lots of good tips. The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't. Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Pytho…
> The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields.
It's not syntax, but rather a third-party macro[0], which it should be noted is inspired by a rather horrible feature of the same name in javascript. Though I guess the devil would be in the details.
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#7Excellent! Lots of good tips. The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't. Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Pytho…
https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#WithStatement
D also has withs. Definitely in the "not necessary but nice to have" category of features, particularly when implementing state machines (i.e. statment soup)
Re: Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I
#8Excellent! Lots of good tips. The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't. Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Pytho…
https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#WithStatement D also has withs. Definitely in the "not necessary but nice to have" category of features, particularly when implementing state machines (i.e. statment soup)
We have like 5 different `with` macros including one in stdlib.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://dlang.org/spec/statement.html#WithStatement D also has withs. Definitely in the "not necessary but nice to have" category of features, particularly when implementing state machines (i.e. statment soup)
We have like 5 different `with` macros including one in stdlib.
I assume "We"=Nim?
It's an interesting pattern to test language designs with. On the one hand expressive macros can be disastrous in big codebases, on the other hand a more "monadic" (implemented via passing some kind of object through a chain rather than algebraically) way is very template-intensive.
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#10Excellent! Lots of good tips. The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. Its also a good point that while Nim looks like Python, it very much isn't. Nim is overall much better designed from a computer science perspective with saner scoping rules, etc, IMHO. That means that while Nim as a language is relatively complex, overall its easier to work with than C++ or even Pytho…
> The `with` syntax is new to me, but it looks useful for dealing with lots of subfields. It's not syntax, but rather a third-party macro[0], which it should be noted is inspired by a rather horrible feature of the same name in javascript. Though I guess the devil would be in the details. [0] https://github.com/zevv/with
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