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NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Post by corv »

ModernMech wrote: post #9
elcritch wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Combine that most CS students learn many languages with LLMs and coding agents and the size of the ecosystem isn't quite as important as it used to be. New hires can be productive from day 1. Missing libraries are relatively easy to add. Moreover the language characteristics can be more useful than ever: fast running, fast compiling, typed, easy to read, etc.

Yeah I think LLMs really help with the chicken-egg situation in language adoption. Contrary to many opinions that predict programming homogenizing around the big 3 languages that exist today (because that's what the LLMs currently write) I think in the future more nice languages will gain adoption as they are written by LLMs, who as you note don't care about a lack of community surrounding those langs -- if they need…

As a Pythonista I tend to agree. I had high hopes for Mojo but it's taking its due time to become usable outside the narrow focus of GPU programming, whereas Nim fits multiple niches surprisingly well.

Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Post by sbmthakur »

ModernMech wrote: post #9
elcritch wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Combine that most CS students learn many languages with LLMs and coding agents and the size of the ecosystem isn't quite as important as it used to be. New hires can be productive from day 1. Missing libraries are relatively easy to add. Moreover the language characteristics can be more useful than ever: fast running, fast compiling, typed, easy to read, etc.

Yeah I think LLMs really help with the chicken-egg situation in language adoption. Contrary to many opinions that predict programming homogenizing around the big 3 languages that exist today (because that's what the LLMs currently write) I think in the future more nice languages will gain adoption as they are written by LLMs, who as you note don't care about a lack of community surrounding those langs -- if they need…

One of my concern is LLMs are going to generate a lot of low quality code for languages that do not have sufficient discussions on forums like Stackoverflow.

Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Post by moigagoo »

elcritch wrote: post #3

I should give a talk. About what however? I’ve been happy with my progress on FigDraw (1), a 2D UI scene renderer using SDFs. Even made my own neovim ui shell with it! 1: https://github.com/elcritch/figdraw

Please do share your progress with FigDraw. Interactive demoes always look great.

Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

#16

Post by giovannibonetti »

sbmthakur wrote: post #13
ModernMech wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I think LLMs really help with the chicken-egg situation in language adoption. Contrary to many opinions that predict programming homogenizing around the big 3 languages that exist today (because that's what the LLMs currently write) I think in the future more nice languages will gain adoption as they are written by LLMs, who as you note don't care about a lack of community surrounding those langs -- if they need…

One of my concern is LLMs are going to generate a lot of low quality code for languages that do not have sufficient discussions on forums like Stackoverflow.

That's why these niche languages need state-of-the-art compilers that enforce invariants more strongly. This way, they can catch most of the subtle bugs the LLM produces, sort of like antibodies.

Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Post by pjmlp »

elcritch wrote: post #8
ModernMech wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My students (18-21) are excited to learn Rust in my class I teach about programming languages. Younger students are learning Luau via Roblox -- spoke with a middle schooler on Sunday who was making games with his friends. They get introduced to Scratch in school and learn that until they move on to Java at middle and high school. I teach freshman Lua in their intro to engineering class, and they also go on to learn t…

Combine that most CS students learn many languages with LLMs and coding agents and the size of the ecosystem isn't quite as important as it used to be. New hires can be productive from day 1. Missing libraries are relatively easy to add. Moreover the language characteristics can be more useful than ever: fast running, fast compiling, typed, easy to read, etc.

Coding agents strengthen the value of low code platforms, and reduce even further the role of specific programming languages.

Examples, workato, boomi, opal,....

Many automations that used to be written in programming languages, deployed via serverless or containers, are now agents driven by prompts.

Re: NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open

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Post by throwaway27448 »

elcritch wrote: post #8
ModernMech wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My students (18-21) are excited to learn Rust in my class I teach about programming languages. Younger students are learning Luau via Roblox -- spoke with a middle schooler on Sunday who was making games with his friends. They get introduced to Scratch in school and learn that until they move on to Java at middle and high school. I teach freshman Lua in their intro to engineering class, and they also go on to learn t…

Combine that most CS students learn many languages with LLMs and coding agents and the size of the ecosystem isn't quite as important as it used to be. New hires can be productive from day 1. Missing libraries are relatively easy to add. Moreover the language characteristics can be more useful than ever: fast running, fast compiling, typed, easy to read, etc.

> New hires can be productive from day 1.

...or counterproductive, lmao

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