Re: Thoughts on ideas from the Unison Language

2019-04-05 Thread cdome
Interesting hoe everthing inter related, Literally, in this PR [https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/10819](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/10819) I have added the implementation hashes very surprisingly very close to what described in the unison link. You can start using it in macros for

Re: Thoughts on ideas from the Unison Language

2019-04-05 Thread rayman22201
> I like these ideas very much but Nim can't innovate on all fronts at the same > time. I did not mean to say I want this feature now. Nim's current direction is great! This post was about my day dreams :-P > Sounds roughly similar to what "incremental compilation" will bring to Nim. I had to

Re: Thoughts on ideas from the Unison Language

2019-04-05 Thread Araq
I like these ideas very much but Nim can't innovate on all fronts at the same time. I'm also a big fan of Mathematica, programming based on this silly "sequence of bytes" notion should have died a decade ago. But it didn't. So my hope is that editors let us get further and further away from the

Thoughts on ideas from the Unison Language

2019-04-05 Thread rayman22201
Offtopic but programming related philosophy question. I've been following the Unison programming language a little bit, and I'm very interested in their idea of keeping a code base as a database of hash id's -> function definitions, instead of just "bags of text files" that get compiled.