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by alehander42 8y ago
You're right: there are a lot of bugs and this should be improved! However, some of those are subjective opinions: a lot of people do see it as pythonic in syntax, even not if pythonic in other decisions. It is cross compilable and f
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by alehander42 8y ago
Honestly, I feel like you just want different things from your language, and you'd prefer something like Scala or Haskell. I've never heard "hate speech" against functional concepts: I've worked on functional-ish&#x
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by alehander42 8y ago
More and more new stuff is happening in the ecosystem: a lot of newer crypto/utility/math libs from the status-im people NimTorch: a new Nim ML framework improvements in the other ML libs( Arraymancer, Neo etc) high le
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by alehander42 8y ago
sound like mbv
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by alehander42 8y ago
codemirror is pretty good
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by alehander42 8y ago
Nim? I always found it a good fit for a lot of semi-system/cli stuff
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by alehander42 8y ago
At least gara can't check exhaustiveness now: require one to add `else` to check all cases: it might be harder in general make sure branches match each possible value. However it should be possible for sum types/enums: `case` alr
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by alehander42 8y ago
You aren't supposed to use different styles in the same codebase: Nim is going to have a tool that can enforce this soon.
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by alehander42 8y ago
But it's so hard to read: I admit a good IDE might help, but maybe it's not bad to prevent this on lang level.
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by alehander42 8y ago
Yes. ADT are case objects: they are widely used. https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut2.html#object-oriented-programm... There are some macros for easier generation: https://github.com/andreaferretti/patty
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by alehander42 8y ago
Interop with C/JS: you can't control all identifiers, because you can reuse a rich ecosystem of other language libs: you can't force their names to change EDIT: you can still change them in importc pragmas, but this still see
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by alehander42 8y ago
It might be indeed: e.g. I've implemented validation for game moves before for a web game, and reusing everything on the backend and frontend was nice
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by alehander42 8y ago
This is so arrogantly naive, that I hope it's sarcasm
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by alehander42 8y ago
Nim's multisync macro is another nice approach: on compile time it transforms the same function to a sync and async variant
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by alehander42 8y ago
Metaprogramming is very fast, this is not a problem: very rarely macros can be the bottleneck
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by alehander42 8y ago
[not op] But what if I don't want them to prefetch it?
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by alehander42 8y ago
Nim is another language with a JS backend and it is also kinda good at this: it has a pretty good type system, but it's easy to use it gradually for JS code. You have a `JsObject` type (which is basically `any`) which lets you write yo
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by alehander42 8y ago
Another quite fast language with GC(actually you can choose between several), generics and ADT(also pattern matching with libraries) is Nim. People also use it for concurrent code, but I don't have so much experience in that aspect
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by alehander42 8y ago
well I wasn't sure what you mean by abstraction. typically languages like Haskell, OCaml are based on great abstractions (and are good to express new ones, especially from a type-system point of view). If you're looking for langua
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by alehander42 8y ago
wow, what's python's level of abstraction? there are languages with much better abstraction capabilities
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by alehander42 8y ago
I have implemented source maps for the js backend : https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/7508 They aren't merged yet in the upstream compiler because I wasn't sure if I wanted to refactor the jsgen
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Ask HN: Can we help Terry Davis?
3 points by alehander42 8y ago|1 comments
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by alehander42 8y ago
you're kidding, but that's really it: people love to hate on electron, but nobody has a better solution. it's about "I can reuse my web-based UI on all desktops, mobile and web", not about css
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by alehander42 9y ago
I still find Rust's syntax relatively nice and love Python. A "system" language with similar to Python's syntax is https://nim-lang.org/
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by alehander42 9y ago
There is even a library(in a very early stage) that tries to semi-automatically translate Python programs to equivalent Nim idioms: https://github.com/metacraft-labs/py2nim
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Error handling in Go: more expressive syntax(alehander42.me)
1 points by alehander42 9y ago|0 comments
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by alehander42 9y ago
And what is so private about Bitcoin? Cryptocurrencies have potential, but they're not really anonymous yet
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by alehander42 9y ago
That would be horrible honestly, people didn't even like Cucumber a lot, which uses this approach only for several situations
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by alehander42 9y ago
Go is nice for its niche, and it can be very cool after using Python. Still it feels too simplistic and limited as a language to me, which includes the "low level" part: it's not "optimally" fast and it's not v
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by alehander42 9y ago
meh, it depends on the problem domain. it's quite nice for its niche, but I don't like it for general use

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