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by narimiran 7y ago
> 3) cross-platform FSI supported via NET Core Last time I tried, I couldn't get FSI working on Linux without Mono. Did something change recently?
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by narimiran 7y ago
> In fairness, Python is the first language the Nim team compares itself to in the first paragraph of their homepage. Probably because most people are more familiar with Python than Ada and Modula (combined) ;) I guess it depends on yo
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by narimiran 7y ago
Have you seen Nimpy[0]? It allows for a nice integration between Nim and Python. At least for the examples I have tried, it could be used in place of Cython, when there's a need for extra speed in some hot loops and similar situations.
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Are there any other generic programming facilities in nim? https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#generics
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by narimiran 7y ago
> I didn't want to work with a language that wasn't stable yet. IME, the language was quite stable since version 0.19, which was released one year ago. But I know that people don't trust some random bloke on the internet
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by narimiran 7y ago
> will Manning upgrade it for a newer version for Nim 1.0 ? The version of the book you bought (and which is still on sale) is compatible with Nim v1 and it is still relevant, no need for another version anytime soon.
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by narimiran 7y ago
> yet another slightly different take on Rust or Go From Wikipedia article of each language: Rust: First appeared July 7, 2010; 9 years ago Go: First appeared November 10, 2009; 9 years ago Nim: First appeared 2008;
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Where does nim sit in regards to the future of machine learning? Can we expect clones of pytorch/tensorflow? https://github.com/fragcolor-xyz/nimtorch
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Lack of static typing and explicit destructors are two things that keep me from using Python (...) the syntax and built-ins are expressive, readable, and powerful. > It's also slow It looks to me like you're describing
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by narimiran 7y ago
> The C-v (Ctrl+lowercase v) is important for literal character insertion. You can remap it to <C-l> (L = literal), and then use <C-c> and <C-v> without shift: inoremap <C-l> <C-v> imap <C-v&g
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by narimiran 7y ago
It seems that there is already Neovim 0.4.2: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.4.2
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by narimiran 7y ago
It seems that there is already Neovim 0.4.2: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/tag/v0.4.2
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Imports in Nim(narimiran.github.io)
3 points by narimiran 7y ago|0 comments
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Can you also relate the median wage in Croatia? And how much taxes are taken by socialistical system on the salary ? Croatian here. Croatian authorities usually don't publish median wage, but the mean wage, so that the numbe
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How to Speak Silicon Valley(theguardian.com)
7 points by narimiran 7y ago|2 comments
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by narimiran 7y ago
> so you can send and receive text messages How about not reading messages while you're driving? And why do you have to write messages while in traffic? Can't this wait?
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by narimiran 7y ago
> used the Arch Linux packages, meaning I always had the latest ones. This is provably false, as I can witness from my recent experience where Arch has 14 month old, long superseded, version of a package, while other Linux distros (inc
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“Python's batteries are leaking”(pyfound.blogspot.com)
552 points by narimiran 7y ago|409 comments
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by narimiran 7y ago
* vs many languages: https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks * vs many languages: https://github.com/frol/completely-unscientific-benchmarks * vs Julia and Python: https://github.com/
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Looks like it's still a pre-release feature at this point. It has been merged to devel branch: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/10729
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by narimiran 7y ago
> Of all the kitchen-sink features that Nim has, I can't accept camelCased == under_scored names otherwise it could have been first. Just to clarify for the general public (because this is often a source of confusion and misunders
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A New Runtime for Nim(nim-lang.org)
21 points by narimiran 8y ago|1 comments
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by narimiran 8y ago
I guess there are other ways and tools, I use this: 1. to put Ctrl on CapsLock: setxkbmap -option caps:ctrl_modifier 2. to have "dual" CL as described above: xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape'
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by narimiran 8y ago
> Have you tried remapping esc to capslock? (Or ctrl to capslock and esc to ctrl) ¿Why not both? I have (on Linux, not on Mac, but it shouldn't matter): * "caps lock" + key = Ctrl+key * "caps lock" (release) =
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by narimiran 8y ago
> Have you ever had a vision exam? Hehe, I thought somebody might ask that. Yes, I have astigmatism and I wear my glasses when working on a computer. > I generally use my browser’s reader mode Reader mode is great but it can'
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by narimiran 8y ago
> there's a habit of reducing the width of the text to a quarter of the screen width This I can understand and support. ---- Intermezzo: First off, if you're having your browser take your whole screen, "you're doing
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by narimiran 8y ago
> You have wrong browser if it does not allow zoomin in and out at will. Yes, my browser allows zoomin in and out at will, but that's not the point. My question was: why in the large majority of the cases I have to do that, why is
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Ask HN: Why do websites have small fonts?
5 points by narimiran 8y ago|8 comments
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by narimiran 8y ago
> I can have a transparent terminal/editor floating over the docs Easily done even with a tiling WM. E.g. I have a keybinding which allows me switching between tiling and floating of a window.
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by narimiran 8y ago
From my comment 5 months ago: Recently I've been using Nim at my work as a Python+Numpy replacement for a numerical simulation of multi-body contacts.

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