The end result doesn't look anything like C! Really nice.
Nim almost feels like I'm writing a dynamic scripting language, except that I've worked with a typed python code base and it sucked because typing always felt taped on. With generics in Nim I feel like I'm duck typing, but my ducks are compile time checked!
I'm keen on experimenting with protocol oriented programming and as far as I understand, UFCS provides this really neatly to the language. I really like the idea of being able to define my own types and have them seamlessly work with functionality of other libs (and vice-versa) without needing to resort to a language feature like traits.
One piece of advice I can give, is functional programming (which I am a huge proponent of), as defined by a tonne of chained/composed operations on sequences
.map.filter.etc.etc()
Is not a good fit for Nim. `proc` is a really good reminder: its a procedural language, more than anything else!
You can still use a lot of FP ideas though, but one thing I always remind myself is at the end of the day Nim _is_ C, C is the output, so working within that idea helps a lot in terms of keeping things optimised with little effort on my behalf!
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The end result doesn't look anything like C! Really nice.
Nim almost feels like I'm writing a dynamic scripting language, except that I've worked with a typed python code base and it sucked because typing always felt taped on. With generics in Nim I feel like I'm duck typing, but my ducks are compile time checked!
I'm keen on experimenting with protocol oriented programming and as far as I understand, UFCS provides this really neatly to the language. I really like the idea of being able to define my own types and have them seamlessly work with functionality of other libs (and vice-versa) without needing to resort to a language feature like traits.
Absolutely! It's fantastic :)
One piece of advice I can give, is functional programming (which I am a huge proponent of), as defined by a tonne of chained/composed operations on sequences
Is not a good fit for Nim. `proc` is a really good reminder: its a procedural language, more than anything else!You can still use a lot of FP ideas though, but one thing I always remind myself is at the end of the day Nim _is_ C, C is the output, so working within that idea helps a lot in terms of keeping things optimised with little effort on my behalf!