So the Nim programming language seems to be what I want in a language. It's got pretty elegant syntax (albeit whitespace code blocks) and it compiles down to binary. It has an optional garbage collector and can do cross compilation on most platforms. I never used Pascal or Delphi but some have pointed out that Nim is heavily inspired by them. This might be a caveat to some but I don't mind. Does anyone here use Nim for anything? I'm curious to get some perspective on it. #programming #linux
@mollusk I don't, but I encourage you to try it with some of the #toyprogrammingchallenges or if you have dug deeply enough into it #AventOfCode Nothing like using a language for something that is not silly and contrived to get to know how you really feel about it.
Give this a shot:
@mollusk it is definitely worth it
@Absinthe I just found out about advent of code this year and it looks neat. I may try some of the challenges if I have the time. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out!