Re: If not Ada, what else...

["G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>]

On 09.07.15 09:28, jm.tarrasa@gmail.com wrote:
> El jueves, 9 de julio de 2015, 0:15:42 (UTC+2), David Botton  escribió:
>>> nim
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>> The closest contender to Ada is D (and in many areas is ahead of Ada, but in key areas lacking and not likely to get fixed),
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> That's an interesting topic. I don't know D (I have prejudices against languages that use curly brackets). In what areas is ahead Ada and in what key areas is crippled?
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>> not Nim (or Rust, since comes up often in same breath) by a long shot. Also, for most projects,
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> Well, Nim is still immature and a little buggy. By the way, Rust author has abandoned Rust and turned into Nim. An .

Is Nim one of those languages that its authors develop
because they like developing programming languages,
and be it based mainly on personal acquaintance with
some language theory and a few translation techniques?

If feels like it is the 1970s again, people succeeding
in finding someone who pays them for writing yet another
separate programming language. ("Ah! Goal getters...!")
Industry not co-ordinating its own needs, just waiting
to be presented with something that has "won"...

After skimming the Nim docs, the concepts I see  make me think:
What's unique about it? Something that would let industry
switch from competitive offerings of "the same"?