On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 10:21:12 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Monday, 5 January 2015 at 09:51:22 UTC, Suliman wrote:
What is kill future of Nim?
D is successor of C++, but Nim? Successor of Python?
I'm not sure if you're being serious, but I'd say yes. The space
where I see Nim being successful is mostly occupied by Python and
Go. That it can compete with D in some systems programming, or
for games, is nice, but games are dominated by C++ and I don't
see how any new language displaces it in the near future. That
doesn't mean that the OP shouldn't experiment though.
With some effort in the scientific space, I believe that Nim
could compete with MATLAB/R/Julia, but currently the libraries
just don't exist. But the language would appeal to scientific
programmers I think, more so than would D.
A C++ successor is any language that earns its place in a OS
vendors SDK as the OS official supported language for all OS
layers.
I think a C++ successor is a language that 'enough' people would
choose where before they'd have chosen C++. Java has already
cleared that bar.
