Version 1.0 released of Nim Programming Language

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@Mason

the community so far seems to mostly agree that robust test suites are the answer

Petr, of the community, agrees with you,

@PetrKryslUCSD

TDD? Unit tests?

yes well, that’s a longer conversation about when I need to write tests and depends on what kind of code i’m writing (i’m referring to the extent of testing - i’m always testing whether i like it or not . I think we can agree that the compiler catching a typo is preferable to devising a run-time test to catch a typo, or can we ?

@kristoffer.carlsson

Just to spell it out but the reason is global variables

So, trade-offs, trade-offs. Ever the problem…
Looking at a C program, if the variable is not declared, ERROR. Therefore,

global varname :: T

as a requirement means a global has to be declared and problem solved, right ? However, by the theorem of “simple and wrong”, it’s not that easy, or it would have been done.

I believe i’m taking the off-topic thread, off-topic. I’ll stop now.

A compiler that doesn’t catch typos aside, I love Julia, and I think Nim is pretty neat too. I thought CLOS was the greatest thing ever, and I was always a fan of macros, so discovering Julia (back at 0.48) and seeing that it incorporated those kind of things sure was exciting I’ve been using it ever since. in my little corner of the world it’s a bit of a tough sell, because Matlab. But that’s a different off-topic thread.