Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
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Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
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Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#2As a casual nim user, there's plenty I probably don't appreciate enough in there, but thing I'm most looking forward to are the default values for objects.
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#3As a casual nim user, there's plenty I probably don't appreciate enough in there, but thing I'm most looking forward to are the default values for objects.
I suspect that is a headliner "syntax" feature for many more serious Nim users. Initialization, like error handling, is one of those things that is easy to mess up.
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#4Greatly looking forward to experimenting with zero-overhead interop, as that is a pre-requisite for using it as a configuration language for certain types of high-performance servers
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#5I wonder if anything from this forum thread [1], which is summarized here [2], got implemented.
[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9132
[2] https://gist.github.com/j-james/08cd36b7475d461d6291416381ce...
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#6I wonder if anything from this forum thread [1], which is summarized here [2], got implemented. [1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9132 [2] https://gist.github.com/j-james/08cd36b7475d461d6291416381ce...
Looking at the summery [2] many of the things got implemented, just a quick list:
* Remove backwards-compatible switches / deprecated features
* Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go
* Shrink stdlib
* Comprehensive stdlib cleanup
* Support default values in object construction
* Language features designed for parallelism
* Lock in --threads:on and --mm:arc/--mm:orc
* Official support for overloadable enum names
* Robust concurrency/multithreading
* Fix bugs!
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#7I wonder if anything from this forum thread [1], which is summarized here [2], got implemented. [1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9132 [2] https://gist.github.com/j-james/08cd36b7475d461d6291416381ce...
Looking at the summery [2] many of the things got implemented, just a quick list: * Remove backwards-compatible switches / deprecated features * Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go * Shrink stdlib * Comprehensive stdlib cleanup * Support default values in object construction * Language features designed for parallelism * Lock in --threads:on and --mm:arc/--mm:orc * Official support for overloadable e…
> * Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go
I feel like memory option removals remain more "planned/maybe revisable/maybe not really agreed upon as the right direction" with only a change of AMM defaults happening in 2.0. (I'm also not sure what value in removal really is except less to learn about/more inflexibility..). The rest of the list seems represented, though.
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#8Well, crap. I just bought his book about version 1 lol.
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#9Nim’s arc and sink/lent annotations seem a lot simpler than Rust’s owned pointers and region annotations. Has anybody had the opportunity to compare the costs and benefits?
Re: Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
#10I was hoping case sensitivity would be implemented but it seems like it was too controversial. I'm thinking at this point there might be too much resistance.