> - the guy who created it will always tell you how he feels
What does this mean?
I'm guessing, but I think the OP means that the Nim creator is a bit like Linus Torvalds. He will tell you if he feels your idea is silly, especially if he's argued against that idea hundreds of times already.
Re:A Programming Language Underdog
by anentropic on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:20AM
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it sounds awesome
A couple of bonus facts for you:
- they've got an effects tracking system where you can have the compiler track (and whistleblow!) which functions are pure or not
- their multi-phase compiler allows you to read in source code at build time (from files or external programs!)
- their macro system is typesafe as it operates at the AST level
- the guy who created it will always tell you how he feels
- again with their macro system... there are FP libs, pattern matching libs, and OO libs that can "literally" transform the language to fit your preference
- and one more just for you: they don't support tail call optimization (ducks)