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1504 :: Another company is looking into Nim!

• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-08-09T00:15:53+02:00] view original

  Medium conducted an interview with some Erlang guy, and one of the questions was:

  In the past we had to create a few clients and console applications. Python and Ruby were great for building them quickly. However not being able to easily generate standalone binaries for each OS and architecture is a shortcoming of those languages. We are testing Nim and Go since they have good cross compilation and library support. Have you tried them? Could OCaml be a good alternative?

  :)

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• Varriount (orginal) [2015-08-09T07:48:26+02:00] view original

  As someone who programs in Python when Nim isn't an option, I couldn't agree more on the standalone executable situation. Py2Exe, cx_freeze and friends are rather hit-or-miss, especially when using certain extensions *cough* PyQt *cough*.

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• rku (orginal) [2015-08-09T10:53:59+02:00] view original

  @Varriount not sure what you mean, never had a problem with PyQt+cx_freeze. Although deployment package is real bulky, thats the truth..

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• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-08-09T15:45:09+02:00] view original

  @rku It's always hit-or-miss. py2exe will occasionally end up with screwed DLLs, PyInstaller can occasionally crash, and cx_freeze-generated binaries always gave weird ImportErrors for me.

  Hit-or-miss. Very hit-or-miss.

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