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I actually noticed that other comment you mentioned and almost said something at that time. The style is just not mentioned much and Python is about 1000x more

by cb321 1y ago

I actually noticed that other comment you mentioned and almost said something at that time. The style is just not mentioned much and Python is about 1000x more well known than other offside-rule PLangs like Haskell. There are also enough exceptions, in Nim at least, that a true bracy fan would have at least some disappointments here & there. In general Nim's syntax affords much, much more choice than Python, from UFCS to user-defined operators to macros to term re-writing macros to etc., etc. It's really a step up from Python in so many ways with a lot of compile-time checking and safety and essentially the same perf as C++. It's a shame it's not a little more popular.

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago
Well I actually really really appreicate nim and consider it to be a lovely language of sorts and want to build more in it just for hacking purposes/why not. I mean. sure they might be a bit disappointed but I didn't even know that () this syntax works, I mean {} is already used by something like set iiirc so something like it for nim might break existing functionality. I just really thought about how to convince others who might have the same grievances with nim because personally I don't mind whitespace but I also want nim to succeed of sorts. Nim to me is a love letter of sorts to programming in general. Maybe I romanticize nim but the only language I feel this sense of writing software in is maybe golang. I am forced to write typescript/python tho, yes I know that nim can be transpiled to js but still, I want to learn Nim too and just build some side casual projects like how people are building with zig. I don't want to suffer with memory management right now so I would use their garbage collection and then if someone wants performance, they can modify my software rather easily for that purpose too. I was thinking of creating a music player from scratch in nim just for learning it. idk, i really want to build something in nim / maybe even contribute to its small libraries to increase the library support

by cb321 1y ago

Imustaskforhelp 1y ago

Well I actually really really appreicate nim and consider it to be a lovely language of sorts and want to build more in it just for hacking purposes/why not. I mean. sure they might be a bit disappointed but I didn't even know that () this syntax works, I mean {} is already used by something like set iiirc so something like it for nim might break existing functionality. I just really thought about how to convince others who might have the same grievances with nim because personally I don't mind whitespace but I also want nim to succeed of sorts. Nim to me is a love letter of sorts to programming in general. Maybe I romanticize nim but the only language I feel this sense of writing software in is maybe golang. I am forced to write typescript/python tho, yes I know that nim can be transpiled to js but still, I want to learn Nim too and just build some side casual projects like how people are building with zig. I don't want to suffer with memory management right now so I would use their garbage collection and then if someone wants performance, they can modify my software rather easily for that purpose too. I was thinking of creating a music player from scratch in nim just for learning it. idk, i really want to build something in nim / maybe even contribute to its small libraries to increase the library support