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by nimmer 3y ago
The author should really look at Nim.
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by nimmer 4y ago
> Any good company won't care what programming language you are specifically proficient in True, but most companies care more about using popular language rather than an innovative one. You might get hired but you won't be usin
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by nimmer 4y ago
No, even small files. You must have issues with your setup. Are you sure your compiler is not built in debug mode?
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by nimmer 4y ago
It's much faster than C++, Rust, Go and many others.
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by nimmer 4y ago
Verbosity overhead? Nim is very close to Python.
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by nimmer 4y ago
There is also Nim in Action, by Dominik Picheta
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by nimmer 4y ago
Nim supports classes and methods.
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by nimmer 4y ago
Nim is a very good choice because it generates tiny binaries while having a very expressive syntax. It's the closest language to a static typed Python. Also it uses GCC, which supports most microcontrollers.
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by nimmer 4y ago
While this is a very ambitious goal, Nim implements formal proof for invariants using a theorem prover: https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html
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by nimmer 4y ago
The latter. For most uses of Pandas you can simply use native arrays. You can use for loops and so on. For N-dimensional array computation: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer/
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by nimmer 4y ago
You can use --styleCheck:usages or a linter to ensure that the style is uniform. You cane enable styleCheck:usages by default in the compiler. Also, most editors do variable/proc autocompletion. Also you can use nimgrep if have to sear
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by nimmer 4y ago
No. Nim always throws an error if you try to define multiple variables/procs that are conflicting. --styleCheck:error strictly enforces camel case.
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by nimmer 4y ago
> If Nim can work with numpy it's a plus Nim goes further there by removing the need for tools like Pandas and numpy. You don't have to write code in "Pandas-style" because native Nim is equally fast and sometimes fas
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by nimmer 4y ago
This is the opposite of a footgun. Imagine if DNS was case sensitive and GMAIL.COM belonged to a domain squatter. Nim prevents that. It's that simple.
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by nimmer 4y ago
You can use --styleCheck:usages or a linter to ensure that the style is uniform.
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by nimmer 4y ago
This is exactly what Nim does. If you try to define both my_var and myVar it will error out. The benefit is to avoid confusing variables or procs named my_var, myVar and myvar.
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by nimmer 4y ago
Style insensitivity is a safety feature, not a problem. It prevents bugs where a developer mistakes one variable or proc for another having similar names. For example in another language you might have variables isReady, isready, is_ready a
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by nimmer 5y ago
> A lot of previous contributors Not really. The fork looks pretty dormant.
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by nimmer 5y ago
Nim uses GCC and works very well. Nim is among the fastest languages both in runtime and compilation time also thanks to GCC. GCC supports way more architectures than LLVM.
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by nimmer 5y ago
Clearly you never tried converting existing Python to Nim. It's quick, feels natural and you get idiomatic Nim. You can even use objects named "self" to ease the transition. https://github.com/nim-lang/N
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by nimmer 5y ago
This is why I like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax and Nim.
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by nimmer 5y ago
> How would I convince my employer to let me use Nim instead of a better known language? This is a rephrasing of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM". Some organization prioritize innovation and technical acumen. > So havi
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by nimmer 5y ago
> It's primarily a testament to how simply mind bogglingly slow Python is No, Nim is truly among the top fastest languages when writing idiomatic code as shown in many benchmarks. > But Nim is only one of a whole suite of languag
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by nimmer 5y ago
> For Nim you can't even use case insensitive search because of the underscore thing! Better practice your regexes. Not at all, unless you decide to mix different styles in the same codebase.
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by nimmer 5y ago
Nim targets all the architectures that GCC targets, including less common microcontrollers.
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by nimmer 5y ago
No, you have to take in account energy usage and pollution attributed to the consumer of at the end of the production chain. E.g. if you import a phone from China you have to account for the energy usage and pollution as yours.
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by nimmer 5y ago
Compared to Go it really feels way closer to Python.
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by nimmer 5y ago
I never had this issue: do not mix different stiles across the same project. Instead, you can import and use libraries that use a different stile without breaking your convention.
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by nimmer 5y ago
I was referring to compilation time... given the question.
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by nimmer 5y ago
It is. It's just not very pleasant to read due to the autogenerated variable names.

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