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 (DIR) Post #AThTm1fzGmVMRCrA4e by sramsay@hcommons.social
       2023-03-16T16:02:13Z
       
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       I've been playing around with the #Nim programming language (https://nim-lang.org/), and all I can say is: Wow, this thing is cool.  I kept hearing it described as "like Python, but fast."  It is crazy fast (compiles to C), and yeah, it's superficially Pythonic (or Rubyish). But the big story is that it puts both those languages on a massive low-sugar diet. There aren't 18 different ways to do basic things.  That, and the fact that it supports metaprogramming that you might actually be able to understand the next day. Very impressed. Oh, and it can also compile to JS!