alt Hacker NewsI spent last week (with Opus, of course) porting the xv6-riscv teaching operating system to a bunch of different languages. Zig, Nim, LISP, and Swift.
The improvements in embedded Swift have definitely made it one of the most enjoyable/productive languages to work on the OS. I feel like I can build useful abstractions that wrap raw memory access and make the userland code feel very neat.
On the other hand, the compilation times are SO bad, that I'm really focusing on the Nim port anyway.
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nesarkvechnep • today at 6:55 PM
LISP like McCarthy LISP?
It's been a long time since I came across Nim. I thought it was really interesting about 12 years ago. What made you land on Nim instead of any of the more obvious alternatives?