Prologue: A web framework written in Nim

Post by RussianCow » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

hobby-coder-guy wrote: post #54

no_wizard wrote: post #19

NIM really is a full stack language and ecosystem. It has a first class compiler to JavaScript (though, I admit, I don't know how tuneable it is, so I think it just compiles down to ES5, it'd be nice to do a differential build where it would compile down to ES5 and/or ES2015/ES2016 at the users discretion) Only thing it needs now is a compile to CSS solution and you would never have to leave the language. Its a very…

> , it'd be nice to do a differential build where it would compile down to ES5 and/or ES2015/ES2016 at the users discretion) Why?

To make the output smaller for those not interested in targeting older browsers.

Post by xyb » Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:42 AM UTC

no_wizard wrote: post #19

NIM really is a full stack language and ecosystem. It has a first class compiler to JavaScript (though, I admit, I don't know how tuneable it is, so I think it just compiles down to ES5, it'd be nice to do a differential build where it would compile down to ES5 and/or ES2015/ES2016 at the users discretion) Only thing it needs now is a compile to CSS solution and you would never have to leave the language. Its a very…

> My only gripe (and its relatively small) is I don't like its compiler directive syntax using the `{.directive.}` style, its a little ugly and noisy to me, I'd prefer something like rust's `#[]` (I think this is actually how you use a Rust macro, but its a nice syntax regardless)

Me too. I think the `{.directive.}` style comes from pascal[1], but put it at the end of the procedure definition line. Lines that are too long are not easy to read. It would be better if each directive syntax had its own line.

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/prog/progse5.ht...

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