He has a different opinion to you, it doesn't matter. Jut have a little laugh
if he complains about Nim. It's not worth losing a friendship over.
The one and only advantage of C# and VB.Net is the best in class IDE visual
studio. If Nim has an IDE like visual studio, then Nim is the king among all
languages. Really.
Oh funny, one reason I was attracted to Nim was because it _was_ immediately
readable to me, that its focus was about readability and representation. This,
compared to rust, for example, which makes me start clenching my teeth. If a
language goes down that rabbit hole, then it should just be
Pardon me but it seems that you should change friends rather than language.
What your friend said about Nim being incomprehensible for people who don't
know Nim is simply ridiculous BS.
If I were in your place -[and](https://forum.nim-lang.org/postActivity.xml#and)
\- for whatever weird reason
First, I'd like to thank you for all the answers. You really gave me some good
knowledge about how I could approach my friend. However, he's found another
argument I really can't beat with my own knowledge. He says Nim's unreadable
for programmers coming from other languages.
My main
I had a similar gang of "friends" a couple of years ago. We used to hang out on
an IRC network that they ran, eventually I decided to just leave it because
having them complain about Nim every time I wanted to discuss one of my
projects became far too tiring.
Many of the languages they were
> First of all, he states that not having such an indentation-based syntax
> allows for more freedom ...
He is right in that but only in one regard: Having explicit block markers (like
{ and } or `begin` and `end`) allows for (visually largely unstructured)
"streams" of code. If that were
Maybe show him `nimforum`'s source code or any other project that's DSL-heavy,
readable and concise.
I have this feeling that the particular quote of Araq will become really famous
and be remembered. So happy I was the one asking! :D
Tell him that triple-digit iq is required to understand nim's greatness
I need a work break so this is a bit long :p If your friend isn't just having
fun with you, then I wouldn't try explaining it, but focus on accepting the
difference to stay friends. This squabble happens a lot in the young tech
crowd, but really any young crowd. Your friend is adopting what
Tell him the truth: C# is a kitchen-sink language for microsoft fans which is
less expressive than nim and it also has a slower and bloated runtime.
Opinions are a dime a dozen, no guarantee that any opinion is superior. If you
do have strong opinions, enjoy them while they last.
I never seen C# outside of MS Windows and related.
Just say that indentation brackets on Nim are written like `#{` and `#}` ;P
Tell him he is right on all matters.
[https://tanndera.com/pin/the-secret-to-eternal-happiness](https://tanndera.com/pin/the-secret-to-eternal-happiness)/
Hello,
First of all, I don't want to hate on other languages, or anything. I don't
have anything against other languages' syntaxes, and I'm OK with people using
them. But I have a friend who has recently "turned against me" – when I started
using Nim, he started being really angry (no, really,
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