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I've looked at Nim a bit, and it does have some nice features. But magic identifier equality [1] is an intrinsically disqualifying design choice. > If a langua

I've looked at Nim a bit, and it does have some nice features. But magic identifier equality [1] is an intrinsically disqualifying design choice. > If a language's lexical structure is so tortured that I need a special tool to grep it, I'm going to skip it and go back to the sanity of C++. [2] Nope, nope, no way. [1] http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-identifier-equality http://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-identi... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936542

Tarean 10y ago
I only used nim for some side projects but the only times I saw this used anywhere is in FFI bindings. That way you can mirror, say, C style while writing the bindings either manually or automatically and use them as if they were normal nim elsewhere.