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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the hell would call python beautiful has never seen python code in the wild

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Too true, python can be beautiful and succinct or like a huge plate of spaghetti cut up with scissors

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you get used to the Rust syntax, it actually makes the code look cleaner.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ans you also learn to format it properly.

Generally any new santax looks ugly. Then when you understand why it is written like it is it starts looking good.

[–] anti_antidote 8 points 1 year ago

learn to ~~format it properly~~ stop trying to correct rustfmt

FTFY

[+] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The third one is rust which has become a meme at this point. Programmers like it because it has almost as much performance as C but has a lot of safeguards preventing memory errors and vulnerabilities. I have no idea what the last one is tho

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those are Rust and Nim

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crab is Rust, but the last one...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apparently it's called nim.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pretty skeptical it could be as fast and safe as Rust without the added challenge. Like, even doing what Rust did was a big deal.

[–] mundane_party 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but based on the Wikipedia article it seems like it’s more trying to be a python replacement than a rust/c++/Java/etc replacement. The big thing with rust is that it’s rules allow memory safety without a garbage collector, while unless I missed something it seems like nim just uses a garbage collector. Not that that’s necessarily some huge problem or anything, but you know, different purposes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So basically, what I'm hearing is that it's not fast like Rust. Yup, that tracks, this is just a guy stanning his favourite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can compile to C which then compiles using your favourite compiler. So it can operate at the speed of C

And the new memory management system is similar to rusts system (and can be fully disabled if you want manual memory management)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can compile to C which then compiles using your favourite compiler. So it can operate at the speed of C

Technically, it all compiles to assembly, but Python is still a lot slower than C or Rust. Speed is lost along the way through those layers of abstraction.

And the new memory management system is similar to rusts system (and can be fully disabled if you want manual memory management)

So it doesn't have a garbage collector? I'm going to have to actually look into this myself.

[–] qaz 0 points 1 year ago

I think it transpiles to C so theoretically it could be quite fast, but I doubt the generated C is as fast as manually written C or Rust.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OH… NIM NIM NIM NIM NIM FUCKING NIM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OH… NIM NIM NIM NIM NIM FUCKING NIM

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One big reason Nim never really caught on is because we've got lots of fast-ish languages with garbage collection (like Go, which sucks a lot of oxygen away from Nim IMO). Rust introduced a new concept to the mainstream that lets you program safely without a runtime hit for garbage collection.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ada would like a word with you ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To my knowledge, Ada doesn't have an equivalent to Rust's borrow checker. I also think I covered that base by specifying "mainstream" 😀

[–] marlowe221 3 points 1 year ago

You forgot JavaScript... but I'm not sure there's an icon/graphic for a racoon on meth...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you forgot zig

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