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At the time of me writing this, the link to nim at the top of the article is wrong. I let the author know, but it ought to be: https://nim-lang.org/ The first reference to the FQDN ends with "-" before the TLD, apparently inadvertently.
By removing the C standard lib and using a custom linker you can get the Hello World down to 150 bytes. Here is a fun read: https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size/ .
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…
Interesting! Minus: yet another proprietary package manager, bypassing the operating system's software management subsystem (operational maintainability) Plus: finally a language which compiles to binary executable machine code. Plus: transpiles to multiple "backend" languages (but transpilers incur a performance penalty). Plus: can link with shared object libraries, thus having instantaneous integration choices with…
In contrast to eg. npm nimble is superfast.
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…
uh, thats basically been the case since ... 20 years or so? I mean i dislike java and c like the plague, but they're nonetheless the defacto enterprise standards at the moment for performance critical work and ... everything else.
just look at the TIOBE Index [1] for example. Ill admit that this is a pretty skewed statistic, but its nonetheless pretty representative for the basic idea behind it.
There is, of course, lots of services / software in other languages -- and often with very good reasons (take erlang for example for layer as an aside: [1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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…
Why enjoy anything after all?
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 are great arguments for why we should all just use Java. Great tooling! Lots of high quality libraries! Nothing to make you get out of bed in the morning! Why enjoy anything after all?
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…
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…
I both agree and disagree with this.
I love the creativity and imagination that goes into a language like nim. But at one time I thought the same about python! Sometime obscure little languages become important.
On the other hand, the tooling statement is dead on. At the point I find out it doesn't have a step-through debugger I'm just reading the docs for fun and then moving on.