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by devxpy 2810 days ago
I took a quick look at them and this is just first impressions, so bear with me?

They still look kinda low level to me. Yes, they provide a lot of high-level constructs and data types like python -- But what they fail to do (IMO) is a consistent abstraction.

For example, all of these languages have a concept of pointers. All of them have a distinction between different integers (int32, int64 etc..)

I had similar feelings when I used dart or even java. They're high level, but not quite!

I don't mean to thrash on these languages in any way. I think they have some real value for programmers.

It's just that I've never seen a language just throw everything out of your way and provide you with this extremely high level and easy to reason interface.

Nim actually looked pretty good, but then I realized it was just the significant whitesapce xD

Maybe I'm too biased because Python was my first (proper) language.