jblindsay

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Cross Platform GUI for D programming language(buggins.github.io)
4 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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D Language Server(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
59 points by jblindsay 8y ago|6 comments
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Over-the-top optimisations with Nim(chameth.com)
2 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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by jblindsay 8y ago
This is a project that I started some two years ago to provide support for raster/vector GIS operations, image processing tasks, spatial hydrology analysis, and LiDAR data processing. It's a pure Rust codebase with a Python interf
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WhiteboxTools: A Rust-based platform for advanced spatial analysis(github.com)
5 points by jblindsay 8y ago|2 comments
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by jblindsay 8y ago
I have a large (~140k SLOC) geospatial analysis project written entirely in Rust, and I can confirm that it takes me about 3.5 min to cargo build --release on my Macbook pro and only about 12 s to cargo check. It is a life saver for product
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Nim Community Survey 2018 Results(nim-lang.org)
5 points by jblindsay 8y ago|0 comments
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by jblindsay 8y ago
My impression is that you're right; there is a good sized group of people out there that have looked at Nim briefly and thought, this is great but I'll check back in when it's "ready". It is a shame because you&#x27
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by jblindsay 8y ago
Well you would say that, would you ;-) I will agree with you that it is a very good language from my explorations, which is why I recommended it. It's one of the most mature languages that I've listed and has three excellent compi
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by jblindsay 8y ago
I didn't mean to imply that this is an absolute. But you may have noticed a lot of 'Nim is not a new language' sentiment in this discussion. In my mind, and I may be wrong, this is largely the result of the fact that the lang
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by jblindsay 8y ago
I have spent time learning, messing around with, and evaluating each of the languages that you have listed. In the end, I decided to go with Rust for my particular application, which is a large (100k SLOC) GIS application. Rust and Zig are
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by jblindsay 8y ago
There have been insightful comparisons in both communities: Nim: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1779 D: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.1427.1428691340.3111.... And the following is probably
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by jblindsay 8y ago
I used Nim a little while back to write a small CLI program that performs a feature-preserving smoothing of digital terrain data (see https://github.com/jblindsay/fp_denoise ). I could have used, and have used, several
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Learning Programming with Nim(narimiran.github.io)
181 points by jblindsay 8y ago|110 comments
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by jblindsay 8y ago
I'll look into this. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
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by jblindsay 8y ago
Yes, I'm kind of surprised by this too, but I guess that the whole industry has been moving away from desktop applications for quite some time.
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by jblindsay 8y ago
Over the past year, I've been porting my GIS project over to Rust ( https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools ). I'm sitting at over 100k lines of Rust code now. My experience with the language has been very