isofruit

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by isofruit 4y ago
Agree to disagree, I use inim all the time to test out those code snippets folks post in nim's discord to see what's broken in them :-P
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by isofruit 4y ago
Actually a really good point! I entirely forgot about Ruby! Though in terms of competition that does still seem less crowded of a field as one where your other contenders are C, C++, Rust (and for application and web-development there'
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by isofruit 4y ago
I only know a hand full of languages so make of that what you will. I came from a python background and hadn't learned a compiled language before, so I wanted to experiment. Tried Rust for quite a while, but found the syntax not clicki
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by isofruit 4y ago
It can be. I would've loved to pick up Rust, the patterns for code structuring etc. that are evolving from it seem interesting to me. But getting the syntax right is just fairly difficult compared to other languages and at some point y
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by isofruit 4y ago
I am looking forward to them supporting distinct DateTime types (basically used-defined clones of the DateTime type with custom behaviour). Currently using the constructor package to do the same thing, but being able to throw out a dependen
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by isofruit 4y ago
Given I used to be a python dev myself before I picked up nim and since then have helped out a fair bit of python-folks picking up nim, I'm not sure what that's based on. The fact that nim doesn't have exactly the same stdlib
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by isofruit 4y ago
To be fair, python back then didn't have great competitors in its space. I guess Perl, but from what I still remember from Perl before I dropped it like a hot potato a couple days in, it wasn't particularly great. Nim does.
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by isofruit 4y ago
To be fair, you can tell your IDE to just turn tabs into spaces and call it a day, that's an issue for all of 5 minutes. What you can't do is tell your IDE to interpret camel-case as snake-case if you want (or vice versa), just be
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by isofruit 4y ago
Imo it goes beyond that. You have folks from Java etc. coming over with their camel-case as well as python folks with snake-case. Now despite both of them writing in their own styles, their code can interact, because when the java-programme
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by isofruit 4y ago
Given that you tend to use linters in those environments as well and that you can turn it off anyway, I'd disagree on that one. There are other factors that would make me hesitate in a professional environment much more, such as commun
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by isofruit 4y ago
Agree to disagree. I don't want to force my users to use snake-case just because I use camel-case and vice versa. There's options to turn it off, options to turn it into a warning when you have style issues so you can make them co
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by isofruit 4y ago
Thanks for the Infos! For context: I used nimpy for a bit for a reimplementation on how Django hashes passwords, making use of one of python's std lib modules. In terms of seamlessness, I can not confirm that it is exactly like having
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by isofruit 4y ago
I do not have any experience with C++ and thus none about its python interop, which makes it hard for me to compare it to nim's python interop which I do have some experience with. Given that, I'm curious what bits of C++/pyt
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by isofruit 4y ago
Yeh, that tracks with my experience. I'd imagine nim to be a somewhat nice learning experience if one already is used to python and the indentation. And with nimpy the integration into existing python codebases is pretty smooth sailing
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by isofruit 4y ago
Full agreement here. My past experience in the bioinformatics field taught me pretty much that "scientists" at large are just as afraid of the terminal as the average person. The science-folks more specialized on informatics typic
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by isofruit 4y ago
You'd need to expand on possibilities because the only factor I could see where that's remotely true would be the current size of the ecosystem.
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by isofruit 4y ago
Disclaimer: I have not written a single line of C/C++ in my life, nim was the first language that exposed me to lower level concepts essentially. I have a webpage-backend life in it, re-coded a very CRUD-heavy and medium-sized Django p
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by isofruit 5y ago
How can such a benchmark be in any way informative? How much am I allowed to optimize the nim code? How much am I allowed to optimize the Rust code? Am I allowed to just change nim's GC to ARC/ORC? I'm sorry but this just doe