Nim is not transpiled. Transpilation means translation between equal levels of abstraction. The C code generated by Nim is not something most people would do anything with.
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I like Nim and many concepts of it with the big point of discussion being that function names get normalized (helloWorld === hello_world).
But I feel like that Nim is a language without purpose. It's all nice and cool on paper, but it has no use case where I think "I have to do it in Nim".
Go is known for making small, fast startup web apps, Python for making small one time tasks or Data work, Rust low level programming if you like functional programming, PHP if you want yo setup a website as fast as possible.
But Nim doesn't have this, it doesn't have a library that's better than in all other languages. It's nice but what for?
The "microsoft rival", as it is called in the headline, is alfaview, a company that offers GDPR compliant video conferencing software.
And they complain that Teams gets bundled with Office by default which givea this an advantage over other (their) product.
Problem solving is basically patent. After all what is stopping a megacorp from using the same solution but in such a way that doesn't copy the exact work? Software for example, with current IP law, clean room reverse engineering is completely legal.
Think of how Tribute of Panem and Divergent almost have the exact same story beats but are still separate IP. IP protects singular works, like authors and their books, artists and their work.
Oh, I'm dumb. Thanks for clearing this up :)
I'm not so sure if the JVM startup was the culprit in your situation. The Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows that even for short runtimes, the startup doesn't affect their performance numbers that much
This is actually a very cool and insightful blog post. I'd have liked if the code was worked better into the written text however. I mean it didn't dive deep into it's Java usage or the specifics of the JVM, other than it being very well optimized for short lived objects.
However, the precise performance numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. I'd classify this as a micro benchmark and those can often be influenced by stuff like cache locality and other small details and could look quite different on other machines.
I used the chat feature semi-regularly to chat with people about more private stuff. It was mostly about exchanging in creative endeavours, sharing what we had before posting it to Reddit.
So I am a bit moved now that they want to delete it.
But I also hated Reddit's implementation of it. Under certain circumstances it wouldn't load older messages and worst of all it was only available on the official app, not even their mobile web app. So continuing my chats forced me to use my desktop, or to try out the app which was horrible.
At this point, let Reddit burn in their mistakes and hopefully the others will make it better.
Lemmy is written in Rust. I currently don't know if there is fediverse server software written in Go tbh
I only know of a handful of cases where branchless programming is actually being used. And those are really niche ones.
So no. The average programmer really doesn't need to use it, probably ever.
Sure, a lot of retro games, especially from the SNES: Super Metroid, LoZ AlttP, the Mario All Stas Collection.
But also like GBA games like Pokémon RomHacks or Mario vs Donkey Kong.
But I also really enjoy playing some Portmaster games. I actually spent most of my time now playing Shovel Knight lol. But I also have fun that Sonic fan games are easily installed. I played a bit the Sonic fan game Sonic Robo Blast 2
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And where did Rust, Python etc get their huge community from in the first place? From being jack of all trades? No, because they were the best fit for their use case. After they established themselves there, they became widely good.