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by tiffanyh 1274 days ago
I wonder if anything from this forum thread [1], which is summarized here [2], got implemented.

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9132

[2] https://gist.github.com/j-james/08cd36b7475d461d6291416381ce...
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treeform 1274 days ago
Looking at the summery [2] many of the things got implemented, just a quick list:

* Remove backwards-compatible switches / deprecated features

* Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go

* Shrink stdlib

* Comprehensive stdlib cleanup

* Support default values in object construction

* Language features designed for parallelism

* Lock in --threads:on and --mm:arc/--mm:orc

* Official support for overloadable enum names

* Robust concurrency/multithreading

* Fix bugs!

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cb321 1274 days ago
> * Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go

I feel like memory option removals remain more "planned/maybe revisable/maybe not really agreed upon as the right direction" with only a change of AMM defaults happening in 2.0. (I'm also not sure what value in removal really is except less to learn about/more inflexibility..). The rest of the list seems represented, though.

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