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It’s lacking the huge community python has though.

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.

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.

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?

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 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

I have some great fun playing Pokémon RomHacks like Unbound or GS Chronicles.

Otherwise I started playing the original Mega Man Battle Network titles for the GBA.

I have an RG353V and I freaking love this thing.

The past few years I barely played games at all. It’s only when I got my little device that I noticed how much I liked playing anywhere: On my couch, on my seat, in my bed or during travel.

It really reignited my love of games.

The manufacturer is chinese, so that’s why most offers are from chinese resellers.

I think it would be the best advice to buy directly from their online store

They had no problem selling the 3DS (versus the DS) or even the 3DS XL or new 3DS.

I think they will ride a bit on the success of the Switch but will make it clear that it is a new system.

Reddit is really on their way to become the next facebook.