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As an engineer I would be persuaded by a) implementing something practical but simple simply, b) implementing something a bit more complex legibly and c) writin
by fsloth 12y ago
As an engineer I would be persuaded by a) implementing something practical but simple simply, b) implementing something a bit more complex legibly and c) writing about the results which explain why they are neat.
The killer promoter is of course a book.
I usually wait before starting on new languages so I'm not slowed down by incomplete tooling, missing compiler features etc.
What really gets me going is a 1-2-3 tutorial which explains how to implement something non-trivial like calling c dlls.
- okasaki 12y agoThe package manager Nimble is written in 800 lines of Nim: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/src/nimble.nim https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/src/nimble.ni... Maybe that would satisfy (a)