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Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by throwaway_au_1 on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:09PM (#34088479)
I didn't know this existed. There's a lot I like about Nim, but total rejection of tab indentation, and now this style insensitivity thing, mean that for me personally, Nim will just stay an interesting language I see on HN from time to time.
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Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by nikhilsimha on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @09:58PM (#34089190)
I am not a fan of case insensitivity either. But it must be easy to write a case insensitive grep. I wager that a nim grep would already exist.

I do agree that this is a red flag decision.

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Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by michaelsbradley on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:21AM (#34090121)
https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html

If you use choosenim to install the nim a number of binaries get built/downloaded along with the compiler:

   $ pwd && ls
   /Users/me/.nimble/bin
   choosenim  choosenim_0.8.2  nim  nim-gdb  nimble  nimgrep  nimpretty  nimsuggest  testament
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Re:Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate by michaelsbradley on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:18AM (#34090105)
The partial case insensitivity thing is not new, it's been part of Nim for a long time, maybe since its very beginning but I'm not sure about that.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...

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