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		nikki93 on Oct 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to ARC/ORC in Nim I think this is really important for application programming, and one of the things that is promising to me about Nim. Also the metaprogramming / DSL stuff helps create eg. specific DSLs for UI programming and things like that (something we've seen people like with JSX in React for example). Can do things as far as https://github.com/krux02/opengl-sandbox (OpenGL pipeline DSL) or https://github.com/yglukhov/nimsl (literally converts Nim functions to GLSL (!)).

cb321 on Oct 15, 2020 [–]

Compile times can be even faster (like 200 milliseconds) with the TinyCC/tcc backend. (Of course, optimization of the generated machine code suffers some.)

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