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Use Nim

Symmetry 9y ago
The author was using this as an opportunity to learn Rust so while it might look sort of crazy to use a systems programming language for build failure notification there was a reason behind their decision. Nim is a lovely language but in the author's case he doesn't really care about speed for the use case so if they were being strictly pragmatic they could have just stuck with Python.
- vfclists 9y ago
  What!! Just as I was responding another of my hard earned points got deducted Who are these mean Rustaceans? Is Nim considered such a threat to Rust?
  - SyrupThinker 9y ago
    I guess people consider your comment not really helpful. Everyone could come into this thread and write "Use <favorite language here>". If you'd have provided some good advantages of Nim in this case, or in general added to the discussion at hand, you might have gotten less downvotes. Maybe you want to stop attacking a community directly, aswell... last time I checked this site wasn't Rustacean only.
  - CJefferson 9y ago
    Your post provided no content. Why should I even look at nim? I don't have time to look at every new language that comes along.
- vfclists 9y ago
  Does that warrant being deprived of 2 of 190 or so points thereof of my hard earned karma? Not that I am suggesting that you are the "hater" here.
  - mcguire 9y ago
    The problem is that the author wanted to learn Rust. Your comment? "Use Nim." Can you see how that it's not helpful, or a good addition to the conversation?
kibwen 9y ago
I'm so tired of these incessant incursions from the Nim Evangelism Strike Force!! :P
- nimmer 9y ago
  Sorry about that. These annoying posts led to a discussion on the language forum. The Nim community, generally speaking, does not seem to support this militant attitude.
libman 9y ago
If you read the actual article, look at its horrifying Rust code examples, and see the author's conclusion to stick with Python, then "Use Nim" is EXACTLY the right response! Saying "Use Nim - it's a statically typed compiled language that about equals Rust in performance, but has a much cleaner higher-level Python-flavored syntax, and a very Pythonic `parsecfg` module in stdlib" is only better for the RTFMably challenged readers who've never heard of Nim before. Shame on the closed-minded pathological down-voters who've completely ruined HN...

Use Nim

The author was using this as an opportunity to learn Rust so while it might look sort of crazy to use a systems programming language for build failure notification there was a reason behind their decision. Nim is a lovely language but in the author's case he doesn't really care about speed for the use case so if they were being strictly pragmatic they could have just stuck with Python.

vfclists 9y ago
What!! Just as I was responding another of my hard earned points got deducted Who are these mean Rustaceans? Is Nim considered such a threat to Rust?
- SyrupThinker 9y ago
  I guess people consider your comment not really helpful. Everyone could come into this thread and write "Use <favorite language here>". If you'd have provided some good advantages of Nim in this case, or in general added to the discussion at hand, you might have gotten less downvotes. Maybe you want to stop attacking a community directly, aswell... last time I checked this site wasn't Rustacean only.
- CJefferson 9y ago
  Your post provided no content. Why should I even look at nim? I don't have time to look at every new language that comes along.
vfclists 9y ago
Does that warrant being deprived of 2 of 190 or so points thereof of my hard earned karma? Not that I am suggesting that you are the "hater" here.
- mcguire 9y ago
  The problem is that the author wanted to learn Rust. Your comment? "Use Nim." Can you see how that it's not helpful, or a good addition to the conversation?

kibwen 9y ago

I'm so tired of these incessant incursions from the Nim Evangelism Strike Force!! :P

nimmer 9y ago
Sorry about that. These annoying posts led to a discussion on the language forum. The Nim community, generally speaking, does not seem to support this militant attitude.

libman 9y ago

If you read the actual article, look at its horrifying Rust code examples, and see the author's conclusion to stick with Python, then "Use Nim" is EXACTLY the right response! Saying "Use Nim - it's a statically typed compiled language that about equals Rust in performance, but has a much cleaner higher-level Python-flavored syntax, and a very Pythonic `parsecfg` module in stdlib" is only better for the RTFMably challenged readers who've never heard of Nim before. Shame on the closed-minded pathological down-voters who've completely ruined HN...