Spent a good portion of my @nim_lang talk on why C++ interop is so important and showing how much easier it is with Nim vs. most everything else. piped.video/watch?v=d2VRuZo2…
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Jul 19, 2022 · 9:23 PM UTC

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Tbf, Carbon will probably be much more polished because it's the top priority.
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Replying to @deech @nim_lang
sidenote, “Nim Nuggets” sounds very wrong for some reason
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Does it mean something weird in a non-English language?
Replying to @deech @nim_lang
I love Nim but it really needs a big backer otherwise it’s always going to be relegated to being a novelty language.
Replying to @deech @nim_lang
nim is generally quite good here, but there are still some c++ tricks which trip it up, one example is type erasure tricks some libraries use
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interop with c++ is one of nim's killer features, along with pragma, and the meta programming