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by planetis 6y ago
I had played with and really liked "owned". However there was design issues with it and that feature was forgotten.
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by planetis 6y ago
Latest presentation is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlBZkWvuug It has updated information.
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by planetis 6y ago
Also macros do not capture their caller AST! They operate on the code passed to them. Another important point that removes any friction. This way nesting macros works with no problem, they're expanded in order. (I can think even more r
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by planetis 6y ago
There is no "friction" with macros, sure lot's of packages implement their own utility macros but most can be hidden under ordinary procs. Macros CAN be called like ORDINARY procs, check syntactic sugar module [1], though not
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by planetis 6y ago
Zig is interesting but still very immature. Its memory model is manual management thus has no advantages over rust or nim. So it's marketed as better C (not any more than that).
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by planetis 6y ago
> Is this a typo? I would certainly hope that a search for "prolog web framework" would not include results about a web framework written in Nim named "Prologue" Unfortunately not. It's caused by fuzzy matching a
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by planetis 6y ago
> ... allowing values (yes, not all values, but important ones) to be nil ... What!? What that even means? Value types can't be nil in nim-lang, these are always initialized, but you can use Option[T] when you need it. If you mean r
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by planetis 6y ago
Also it's not the first time I get garbage results from google's fuzzy matching, happens with other words too. Arguably it's annoying and should be improved instead.
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by planetis 6y ago
I think none mentioned here the fact that prolog and prologue are two different words. Prolog is a made up word, an abbreviation for "programmation en logique". Prologue means the introductory part. So why the confusion? I believe
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by planetis 6y ago
> attempts to solve every single problem for you. What are you talking about?
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by planetis 6y ago
Weak references are possible with the .cursor pragma applied on local variables and object fields. This release introduces cursor inference too, enabled by default with --gc:arc|orc, but only for local variables.
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Turks cry every morning when they wake up to the sight of Greek islands(twitter.com)
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by planetis 6y ago
I second that, also two Greek rescue units. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Albania_earthquake#Intern...
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by planetis 6y ago
> They have historically been a bad neighbor. How's so? With almost half a million Albanians living and working in Greece, you would expect relations to be normalized. There was the recent turmoil with Albanian government revealing
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by planetis 6y ago
sorry for the ignorant question, how's nim optimizer going to benefit from write tracking? I suspect it has something to do with cursor inference (borrow checking)?
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by planetis 6y ago
With Arc's "deterministic" memory management interfacing Nim DLLs from other languages should be better, although never tried it. One trick that works as a guarantee for me is writing Nim code in almost pseudo-language style,
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by planetis 6y ago
> When I started learning Nim I noticed the docs and even the getting started tutorial just threw the kitchen sink at you, it totally overwhelmed me. This sums my experience as well. But nowadays there are more resources to learn Nim. Th
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by planetis 6y ago
Is it hype, or controversy then? :P Latest development in Nim is reference counting is planned to replace the GC https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6549 . However this is done in a non-breaking way and their isn't much c
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by planetis 6y ago
Hey that's unfair :(. Nim's dev team had done user surveys for three years now https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-result... and improved the docs significantly. Rust has exce
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by planetis 6y ago
I partly agree with you, Nim is a complex language. Just have a peak at the manual https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html , where Nim's features are documented. However for me Nim appeared simpler when starting out
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by planetis 6y ago
I also using it for game programming :) A good game framework in Nim is https://github.com/ftsf/nico Also for linear algebra and machine learning they're a couple of good libraries: 1) Arraymancer https:/&#x
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by planetis 6y ago
NimConf 2020 [1] also took place just recently, was great success. [1]: https://conf.nim-lang.org/ Hacker news coverage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23585006
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by planetis 6y ago
A very informative interview with Araq (the creator of Nim) was posted a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9SGIB946lw It's mostly up-to-date.
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by planetis 6y ago
Companies using Nim https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Companies-using-Nim
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by planetis 6y ago
It's called Nimbus, since it wasn't mentioned, here's their website: https://nimbus.team/ and why Nim is explained here: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-t...
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by planetis 6y ago
Old but relevant: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/08/07/nim-partners-with-statu... In short, thanks to status funding Nim's development has accelerated since then.
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Erdoğan is both a bully and a menace. Europe ignores him at its peril(theguardian.com)
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Turkish Aggression Is NATO’s ‘Elephant in the Room’(nytimes.com)
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Greece and Egypt sign agreement on exclusive economic zone(ekathimerini.com)
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by planetis 6y ago
Some backstory: After last week fiasco, where the Greek navy fleet, forced them to "postpone" their seismographic research south of Crete (Greek territorial waters), they're back at their usual, bullying the weakest kid. Real

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