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by tastyminerals2 2166 days ago
Yes, they are frequently compared. If you like style-insensitive (case insensitivity, underscore ignored) languages with hacker mentality, Nim is for you. This is simply a no-go for me. I briefly tried Nim before even knowing about D and it never stuck with me due to awkward syntax (subjective). Later I learnt that Nim (being a younger language) frequently breaks backward compatibility. Maybe it changed now but all the above was enough to pass it and move on.
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pjmlp 2166 days ago
What I dislike is the {. .} annotations, Active Oberon also followed that path and I don't find it that great.
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throwaway_pdp09 2166 days ago
Some context would be nice - can you say a little more on that annotation please.
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pjmlp 2166 days ago
That is how Nim does pragmas,

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#pragmas

And Active Oberon as well (here called flags),

http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2/repository/raw/trunk/Lang...

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