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Roc, Nim and Idris are currently compelling to me. Roc and Idris mainly because I like pure functional languages along with some typing. But I like Nim a lot t
by pmarreck 2y ago
Roc, Nim and Idris are currently compelling to me.
Roc and Idris mainly because I like pure functional languages along with some typing. But I like Nim a lot too.
I am on the lookout for a language that I can replace some overly complex Bash scripts with for commandline use.
- cb321 2y agohttps://github.com/c-blake/cligen https://github.com/c-blake/cligen makes whipping up CLI utilities very easy in Nim with a pretty fancy CL-user experience (colorized, user-tunable --help, Zsh/bash completions, brief long options, spellcheck/autosuggest on typos, etc.). As examples, there are like 60+ such utilities over at https://github.com/c-blake/bu https://github.com/c-blake/bu . Unsure all that adds up to "critical mass" for you, but it seemed worth noting.
- pmarreck 2y agoThat is definitely worth noting!! I don’t suppose I could compile a binary that runs on both linux and macos (a la Cosmopolitan)?
- cb321 2y agoI do not have any personal experience with it, but I have heard several success stories for Actually Portable Executables & Nim and there is this to try to ease the path for cosmopolitan libc fans: https://github.com/foxoman/cosmonim/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/foxoman/cosmonim/blob/master/README.md