[dev] I just "discovered" programming language Nim

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Reagle
I just "discovered" programming language Nim. Has anyone tried it? Any reviews? Looks very interesting. https://nim-lang.org/

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-02 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 06:29:30 -0400 "Greg Reagle" wrote: Dear Greg, > Thank you for your explanation Laslo Hunhold. I wholeheartedly agree > with you about the fallibility of human programmers, and the > vulnerability of C to errors. Even though I am a fan of the suckless > philosophy and its p

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-02 Thread Laslo Hunhold
On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:38:48 +1200 Miles Rout wrote: Dear Miles, > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 06:45:40AM -0700, Jeremy wrote: > > Regarding readability: in terms of the just the standard libraries, > > I agree that Rust is more readable than C, especially it comes to > > iterating and generics. >

Re: [dev] I just "discovered" programming language Nim

2021-05-02 Thread Hadrien Lacour
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 08:37:54AM -0400, Greg Reagle wrote: > I just "discovered" programming language Nim. Has anyone tried it? Any > reviews? Looks very interesting. > > https://nim-lang.org/ > Seeing some examples on RosettaCode, it certainly doesn't look bad, but isn't radical/high level

Re: [dev] I just "discovered" programming language Nim

2021-05-02 Thread Teodoro Santoni
2021-05-02 12:37 GMT, Greg Reagle : > I just "discovered" programming language Nim. Has anyone tried it? Any > reviews? Looks very interesting. > > https://nim-lang.org/ > > I don't like the Pythonish syntax, but you can hack a quite efficient executable in very short time, so I think that it p

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-05-02 Thread Greg Reagle
On Sun, May 2, 2021, at 09:22, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > "Greg Reagle" wrote: > > Thank you for your explanation Laslo Hunhold. I wholeheartedly agree > > with you about the fallibility of human programmers, and the > > vulnerability of C to errors. Even though I am a fan of the suckless > > philos