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Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by _Wintermute on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:02PM (#34086967)
As a casual nim user, there's plenty I probably don't appreciate enough in there, but thing I'm most looking forward to are the default values for objects.
Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by cb321 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @05:12PM (#34087074)
I suspect that is a headliner "syntax" feature for many more serious Nim users. Initialization, like error handling, is one of those things that is easy to mess up.
Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by isofruit on Thursday December 22, 2022 @04:24AM (#34091441)
I am looking forward to them supporting distinct DateTime types (basically used-defined clones of the DateTime type with custom behaviour). Currently using the constructor package to do the same thing, but being able to throw out a dependency is always nice.