alt Hacker NewsI was looking for something that allows easy access to direct memory, with a syntax thats a little easier to explain than C. Frankly, zig was not actually a real viable option based on that syntax requirement but I still wanted to explore it.
Nim really is clean and simple.
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functional_dev • yesterday at 7:10 PM
yeah, Nim is great for that... much easier to explain to others than C or Zig especially for math code
flykespice • yesterday at 7:12 PM
Yeah, for a language that claims to be a better modern alternative to C, zig verbose syntax is really an eyesore to look at compared the very same codebase written in C...
I lost immediately any interest on it
PKop • yesterday at 7:01 PM
How about Odin?
Nim is really incredible. The only things I cannot get over is the fact that it goes the inheritance route in a way I find to be hacky and fragile (no more than one level, really?) and traits are not a core feature. If Nim's primary approach was composition + Rust-style traits (that work at compiletime and runtime), I'd have a hard time wanting to use anything else.