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The Nim forum has recurring questions about deserializing JSON that only make sense if you assume Nim is runtime dynamic like Python. And many random question

• dom96 6y ago
  > The Nim forum has recurring questions about deserializing JSON that only make sense if you assume Nim is runtime dynamic like Python. Nim is a statically typed Python, and actually the way you can deserialise JSON is very Python-like, so I'm not sure where you got this from. Here is an example: Python: >>> import json >>> j = json.loads('{"foo": 42}') >>> j["foo"] 42 Nim: import json let j = parseJson("{\"foo\": 42}") echo(j["foo"]) # 42 https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2KpU https://play.nim-lang.org/#ix=2KpU
  • beagle3 6y ago
    But replace the last line with 3+j["foo"] in python (and respectively, echo (3+j["foo"]) in Nim), and the Python prints 45 whereas the Nim compiler greets you with ~40 lines of output asking you what exactly you meant. Just to clarify: I'm not complaining. I'm happy that the compiler bugs you to do 3+int(j["foo"]) if you're going to treat it as an int. But I don't consider Nim a statically typed Python. (Also: am a very satisfied owner of a dead-tree version of the Nim book. Thanks! Highly recommended. And dom96 is awesome in general)
• planetis 6y ago
  Which post, the one forgetting that string literals in JSON are quoted or the other one that paid no attention on the nesting of JSON objects :P