Pros and Cons of Nim

Re:Pros and Cons of Nim by ptx on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:39AM (#23336543)

I'm hopeful that Kotlin/Native will improve in these areas (excepting the last one) but:

* Faster compilation.

* Tooling is less memory-hungry.

* C++ interop.

* Macros.

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Re:Pros and Cons of Nim by vips7L on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:11AM (#23338247)

Tooling as in intellij/gradle? I doubt they'll ever use less memory.

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Re:Pros and Cons of Nim by The_rationalist on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:16PM (#23339042)

Actually intellij since 2020.1 release is kinda fast :0

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Re:Pros and Cons of Nim by The_rationalist on Thursday May 28, 2020 @09:14AM (#23336837)

Why macros vs decorators?

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Re:Pros and Cons of Nim by ptx on Friday May 29, 2020 @04:26AM (#23347609)

I think you basically covered it in your other comment. Macros are much quicker and easier to write than compiler plugins or annotation processors, but they are difficult for the IDE to understand. So it's a trade-off where Nim and Kotlin both make reasonable, but quite different, choices.

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