Nim vs. Crystal

Re:Nim vs. Crystal by k__ on Thursday December 26, 2019 @03:31PM (#21886485)

Clojure, Haskell, Nim, Python, and I think you could even write JavaScript without using curly braces.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by sansnomme on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:32PM (#21886983)

Other than Haskell and Nim, the rest are hardly compiled to machine code.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by makapuf on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:44PM (#21887859)

Well C can be used without those:

   #define BEGIN {

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by k__ on Friday December 27, 2019 @05:02PM (#21895136)

Haha.

To me BASIC syntax always looks like a clunky version of C syntax and the pre-processor code you wrote is just what I have in mind when seeing this.

It always feels like someone wanted to do ML syntax, but didn't go all the way with it.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by 1ark on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:38PM (#21888400)

There are a few Schemes that can compile to C or machine code.

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Re:Nim vs. Crystal by k__ on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:33PM (#21887797)

OCaml, maybe?

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