honewatson

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by honewatson 7y ago
I've been using Linux since the late 90s and case sensitivity has never been an issue for me with Nim since I started using it in 2016. This is FUD and fake news.
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by honewatson 8y ago
Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python. The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different. I came from a strong Python background and now I pre
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by honewatson 9y ago
I found getting F# dev environment set up on Ubuntu was super easy. That said that I found Merlin in Vim to be better than Jetbrains Rider. With Ocaml/Reason you should be able deploy via native binary. The build times and deployme
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by honewatson 9y ago
Crystal is closer to C performance wise. The compiler is much slower than Go due to the aggresive type inference.
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by honewatson 9y ago
Can't agree with that. Having used both Lua and Moonscript quite a bit I think Moonscript is what most dynamic scripting languages should be. Simple, succinct and does what you need for a scripting language. I really enjoy using it.
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by honewatson 10y ago
Yes time will tell. Its basically like giving someone Jedi powers with the risk they could fall to the dark side while Golang is like Han Solo just getting things done in a much less sophisticated yet practical manner.
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by honewatson 10y ago
The difference is you or your team have the option to use the magic in moderation vs no magic at all.
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by honewatson 19y ago
I'd lie about my age to for $510 million dollars.