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Nim 1.0(nim-lang.org)
785 points by treeform 7y ago|303 comments
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by treeform 7y ago
Huge ecosystem also have issues. Your are tempted to use a library when a simple 100 line "replacement" that just does what you want will do. I think the biggest problem in programming we have right now is people using libraries u
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by treeform 7y ago
This is what it is for me: Objective-C -> Nim (can compile to ObjC, calls methods directly without overhead) Python -> Nim (Nim is a super fast python that prevents typos) Ruby -> Nim (Nim is better in every-way) JavaScri
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by treeform 7y ago
Nim is a super fast python that also prevents typos. I use nim everyday. 98% of my programming is in nim only. I highly recommend nim. During the day I work mostly on internal tools and dashboards, during the night I work on games. Nim comp
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by treeform 8y ago
That is like the first thing I saw too. I was not fooled. But maybe this system works better then a free + donate button. Only data can tell... Maybe people are donating more with this system?
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by treeform 8y ago
I want to use the func keword more. I think many of my procs can be funcs instead. In my programs i like having a simple imperative middle, but fuctional no side effects edges.
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by treeform 8y ago
I thought so too about Nim, but then I realized how easy it is to call c libs from nim. There is infinate amount of c and c++ libs out there.
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by treeform 8y ago
I am switching all my work to him now. It's a super fast python with types. The non nil string and sequence in this version are cleaver.
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by treeform 8y ago
Nim is great. To me it feels like typed python that is fast. It also runs everywhere. I use its C mode on the server, its js mode on the website, and even its c++ mode to interface with c++ libraries such as steamworks which are hard to int
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by treeform 8y ago
I chose to learn nim coming from Python, because found C++ to be annoying and difficult. It feels like python but faster. I have compiled to to JS and integrated with complex C++ libraries. I like it so far. Metaprogramming is cool feature.
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by treeform 8y ago
What do you think about them forcing you to use Swift or Objective-C for this? Forcing you to use languages that use ref counting and object oriented pointer tables that are traversed at runtime? How much of the gains does objc_msgSend eat
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by treeform 9y ago
Where did he get that assembler output from? It uses "jump-if-less" and "load" instead of "jl" and "mov"? Is that a swift/llvm syntax?
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by treeform 10y ago
Barcelona's block layout comes to mind: http://projectivecities.aaschool.ac.uk/portfolio/yuwei-wang-...
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by treeform 10y ago
In jai, did you write the parser yourself or used a parser generator like yacc? In my toy languages I find writing my own parser more fun and not hard. I find it harder to make yacc do things such as indentation significance.
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by treeform 10y ago
Majority of Minecraft comes from console/mobile. Minecraft mobile surpassed Minecraft desktop in 2013, with consoles doing same thing later. Most people don't play the original java version that has mods. Most people don't pl
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by treeform 11y ago
This could be cool if the "401L" would have the proper tax incentives around it as well. I think there is very small tax incentive to repay student loans now. How does that work exactly? Now if Employers add matching as a benefit
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by treeform 11y ago
This could be quite cool if technologically feasible, do you have a prototype or how far along is it?
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by treeform 11y ago
Dating? Don't men and women tend to do different things? Won't men get paired with a small subset of woman who like doing manly things, and women with a small subset of men who likes doing womenly things?
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by treeform 11y ago
Sorry I don't understand what you are trying to do. Can you provide an example of how and what this would be used for?
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by treeform 11y ago
I have just used this script and it worked great. I used the lets encrypt normal client and it felt very bloated for me: virtual env, docker, tons of dependences. I hope lets encrypt folks put their client on a diet.
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by treeform 11y ago
Yeah i felt the same way. I can't really tell how gnarly the if statement is, but interfaces, classes, zope, xml is way worse. Every one knows how if statements work, not so much with zope xml.
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by treeform 11y ago
Me too!
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by treeform 11y ago
Its not working for me.
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by treeform 11y ago
Why run any programming software on the chrome book? You can always just ssh into a box and do your dev there? I have been using that for years (and the web code editor I wrote). I have used the first Pixel as on the go dev machine for year
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by treeform 11y ago
I used the same image and it did not guess it at all. It said "oblate"...
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by treeform 12y ago
We were in the same situation. But we were completely open with our YC founders and they helped us a lot in getting into YC and with tons of advice. It seems like you are building the relation ship wrong based on some sort of deception. I w
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by treeform 12y ago
In the article they they are doing both. People from chrome team said they are doing asm.js. "Q: How does SoundScript compare to asm.js? A: They have different goals: asm.js is a low-level language designed to be a compilation target f
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by treeform 12y ago
Also related, I learned a lot about peoples perception of FOV in fps games from this reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2yi4yx/blizzards_stan...
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by treeform 12y ago
I am not even a security novice, but isn't getting root on the devices basically a game over? The suggestions the author hard to encrypt the stuff in memory and on disk would just add a extra step for the attacker to find the key? If t
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by treeform 12y ago
Or some thing like node-js but using SpiderMonkey instead of V8. Name really does not fit and blows up expectations. node-firefox-simulator would be more apt.

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