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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by kryptiskt on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:58AM (#18045484)
It has no algebraic data types and pattern matching.
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by andrewchambers on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:12AM (#18045516)
Someone wrote pattern matching as a macro - nim is pretty powerful.
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by mooreds on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:22AM (#18045547)
This library? https://andreaferretti.github.io/patty/
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by andrewchambers on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:46AM (#18046170)
That's the one.
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by ColinWright on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:21AM (#18045715)
Do you have a reference for that immediately to hand, or should I search for it ...
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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by mratsim on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:39AM (#18045606)
What algebraic datatypes is Nim missing?

It has generics, tuples, tagged and untagged unions, it even has C++20 concepts.

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Re:A Programming Language Underdog by chi3 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @07:32AM (#18045580)
This is enough to make me keep using C++ for the use cases where Nim is meant to shine, or choose Rust instead. If I'm to learn a modern language, I really expect it to support modern paradigms.

I can see why it'd be interesting to someone with no C/C++ knowledge to get into systems programming though.

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