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SolitudeSF··on Pack: A new container format for compressed files
no build instructions, binary artifacts in repo. yuck.
SolitudeSF··on Comparing the C FFI overhead on various languages
this benchmark is afwul (which is expected)
SolitudeSF··on Bugs that the Rust compiler catches for you
this not even close to expert knowledge, thats entry level
SolitudeSF··on Nim Version 1.6.6 Released
its true that leadership does nothing and development is stuck, but even in this state nim is probably enough for most people.

> how much frustration you will encounter fighting the compiler and broken / under-specified language features and semantics might be a turn-off.

unless you limittest generics, most people wont even encounter this.

> My advice would be to look elsewhere.

that would imply that there is a better alternative

SolitudeSF··on Show HN: Botwars.io – Battle robots with your favourite programming language
Nim
SolitudeSF··on Patten Matching in Nim
thats not a different way of doing same thing, its doing different thing. this not even an argument, if language can provide multiple memory management strategies, in what world is that a bad thing?

and if you somehow confused about choice (of gc), you should stick to default.

also, there is no such thing as "There is Only One Way to Do It" languages. your entire argument is just a circlejerk point.

SolitudeSF··on Patten Matching in Nim
> Nim implements just about every paradigm it can think of, and if there are multiple ways to implement a paradigm, it implements them all.

any examples?

SolitudeSF··on GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
he is not trying to sell/convince you to learn gtk. he is warning if you already want to learn it. not everything posted on hn should be a promotion material.
SolitudeSF··on Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
glad subjects like you are getting filtered by themselves
SolitudeSF··on Nim vs. Crystal
it still compares algorithm implementation, not the language speed.
SolitudeSF··on Nim vs. Crystal
thats not how it works
SolitudeSF··on Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language
you can compile with `--stylecheck:error/hint` for enforcing consistent naming.
SolitudeSF··on Nim 1.0
https://github.com/bluenote10/nim-electron-karax
SolitudeSF··on Nim 1.0
#? replace(sub = "\t", by = " ")

but please, dont

SolitudeSF··on Nim in 2018: A short recap
> Hate speech against functional concepts in the community

are you trolling?

> Some arrogant community members were tolerated just because they wrote popular blog posts on Nim implementing a fashionable pet project.

for example?

SolitudeSF··on Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
Is this bait?
SolitudeSF··on Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
Pretty sure it does
SolitudeSF··on Nim language v0.18.0 released
specifically for this nim ships with its version of grep - nimgrep