Anyone every used Nim? What do you think about it? Would you suggest it?

used what

@kescherRant Nim. Look it up.

Hm, seems neat.

@kescherRant that's why I'm wondering

If only it had braces :(

But it sounds like a really cool project

@Ubbe oh g-d! Did not see that part!

@Ubbe I didn't even see that. That's retarded

After looking at it some more I'm kinda split. It looks interesting and I like the idea but it just feels like they borrowed way too much from other languages which they thought is kinda nifty but it just results in a bit of a mess. Mostly because the things they borrowed were not particularly good in the first place

@here the main reason why I looked into it is because its apparently good with writing CLIs. But now that it's been brought to my attention how bad it is, what would you suggest?

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@Ubbe I've looked into it before, and I think I'll definitely try it

@Ubbe Go isn't good either though...

@chabad360 I don't think you really need a specific language to write CLIs just a good library. Language-wise I don't really know, Java is always a good bet, maybe Rust. Or just go with Nim. Maybe you can actually learn something from their mistakes

@Ubbe You can use something like Launch4j to make an exe out of a jar, but I do get your point. Tbh Rust, Go, Nim are all good enough to work with. It's really just personal preference

@12bitfloat @Ubbe but take for example CLI apps written in Python... Almost every single one I've encountered is slow... I'm looking for a language that's both easy and fast. The library's for writing a Python CLI are very good, but Python is slow...

Bash is fast, but requires way to much logic just to handle args.

But Nim seems to have been good in both, but I didn't really look into it much, and you guys pointed out it's faults.

Golang doesn't seem to be a bad alternative, but I don't know...

What would you guys suggest?

@chabad360 That's because Python is trash and Bash isn't a programming language

@12bitfloat I can't say Python is complete trash... But about bash, that's a fair point.

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