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• dom96 (orginal) [2018-10-27T20:39:08+02:00] view original

  Apologies for the delay!

  https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/10/27/community-survey-results-2018.html

  Let me know what you all think :)

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• kcvinu (orginal) [2018-10-27T20:57:18+02:00] view original

  IMHO, there is some areas nim still needs to improve.

  1. Avoid "type" and use the identifier "class "

  2. In a type, if we assign some default values to a base type, then it should be available in child classes. Please see this example.

  type
      BaseType = ref object of RootObj
          intVar : int
          strVar : string
      
      ChildType = ref object of BaseType
          childInt : int
          childStr : string
  
  proc newBase( a : int, b : string) : BaseType =
      new(result)
      result.intVar = a
      result.strVar = b
  
  var aBase = newBase(50, "a String")
  var aChild = new ChildType()  # We need "aChild.intVar = 50 and aChild.strVar = "a String"
  # When will we get the deault values of a base class in child classes ?
  Run

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• mratsim (orginal) [2018-10-27T21:20:41+02:00] view original

  No class, this is a type system.

  Actually there is no default values at all newSomething is just a convention. Feature request: #3250. In the mean time you can create a newChildType proc that calls newBase.

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• kcvinu (orginal) [2018-10-27T21:31:39+02:00] view original

  Ok, i agree. There is no choice for me.

  I know i can create newChild proc. But thats not the case about other languages. Please see the inheritance in "D", "VB.Net", "C++"

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• alehander42 (orginal) [2018-10-27T23:34:44+02:00] view original

  Disclaimer: I see what I want to see here: 3rd party libs!

  "reasons to stop": "Missing feature", "Missing libs" -> 15% a lot of not sufficiently better of the responses can be also related to the ecosystem.

  Missing features can be very often fixed by implementing them in userland (e.g. comprehensions, pattern matching and various concurrency primitives). The goal for Nim is to have a powerful core, so very often what is perceived as a missing language future can be fixed by the users.

  Having many new libraries means also:

  • Better marketing: you can showcase the good sides of the language, promote it more with blogs this is written in Nim and get contributors to learn NIm (e.g. not only libs, many of the popular Go/Python cli tools attract a lot of contributors)
  • Competition which looks good from the outside and which produces often better results than stdlib / builtin feature as competing ideas can evolve

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• treeform (orginal) [2018-10-29T22:01:32+01:00] view original

  Dom96, good job on the write up!

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