Pgen VS Nim

Correct Battery Horse Staple :)

Speaking of which, if you want to generate long memorable passphrases, I have an open source cli tool I wrote for that, which I myself use.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

Give it a spin

This xkcd comic has been instrumental to me.

I wrote a command-line utility a couple of years ago that I use myself regularly to generate secure and memorable passwords

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

With this tool you can also see how many bits of entropy the passphrase generation settings you are using will result in.

For example, generating a 5 word password using the long wordlist

    pgen -l -n 5

Around 2011 I set up full disk encryption for the first time. The systems I did this on were some second hand computers that I had bought and installed FreeBSD on. The systems were very stable. Too stable! They were running for several weeks until one day when there was a power outage. I booted the machines and promptly realised that I was not entirely sure about what the convoluted password I had chosen for full disk encryption was exactly.

I lost quite a bit of data that day.

It taught me to stop with silly 5|_|1357:7|_|7:0|\|5 and to use long passphrases instead. This ensures high entropy without the possibility of forgetting symbols chosen, because there are no symbols to remember.

It also taught me to frequently reboot my computers, so that I remember the passphrases to decrypt the disks.

I have a tool that I wrote and which I actively use myself for generating passphrases, it’s called Pgen and it’s open source at https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

Interesting points and I agree.

Makes me wonder if I should’ve picked a different name for my passphrase generator. I named it “Pgen” and I use it several times per month.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

Perhaps “passblazer” or something would have been a better name :thinking:

Unfortunately, it’s not really possible to rename it at this point :/

Oh well, maybe some other time I can come up with a creative name for a project instead of an overly descriptive name :)

My greatest accomplishments on GitHub are my projects that I actively use myself, and which other people are using as well.

https://github.com/ctsrc/Pgen

Pgen is a passphrase generator that uses the EFF wordlists for random passphrases.

A typical passphrase generated with Pgen looks like:

oxford antelope veteran thorn dastardly gem tripod upfront avocado femur moisture sacrifice

Pgen is written in Rust.

Browse my GitHub profile to see some other projects as well, including my “repotools” project which is very basic but super useful and I invoke the repotools commands many times every day.

I also have my zshrc on GitHub, the main selling-point of which is the way I have set up my PS1 prompt. It uses different emojis for different machines and adds some extra white space. The emojis are useful because for a long time I sometimes found it difficult to quickly identify which terminal is logged into which host when I have many terminals open some of which are connected to ssh. Having the host name in the print is nice and all but when you have a handful of terminals open or more it’s not very distinct. Coloured emojis take small space and make each host distinct. Vertical spacing between each command invocation makes it more comfortable to read scroll back and more quick to scan.

22. Nim - $80,000

I think the right answer to your question would be NimLang[0]. In reality, if you're seeking to use this in any enterprise context, you'd most likely want to select the subset of C++ that makes sense for you or just use C#.

[0]https://nim-lang.org/

I don't think it's a rust-inspired language, but since it has strong typing and compiles to javascript, did you give a look at nim [0] ?

For what it takes, I find the language very expressive without the verbosity in rust that reminds me java. And it is also very flexible.

[0] : https://nim-lang.org/

I see a valid cert for https://nim-lang.org/

FYI, on the front page, https://nim-lang.org, in large type you have this:

> Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

You better off with using a compiled language.

If you interested in a language that's compiled, fast, but as easy and pleasant as Python - I'd recommend you take a look at [Nim](https://nim-lang.org).

And to prove what Nim's capable of - here's a cool repo with 100+ cli apps someone wrote in Nim: [c-blake/bu](https://github.com/c-blake/bu)

Chapel has at least several full-time developers at Cray/HPE and (I think) the US national labs, and has had some for almost two decades. That's much more than $100k.

Chapel is also just one of many other projects broadly interested in developing new programming languages for "high performance" programming. Out of that large field, Chapel is not especially related to the specific ideas or design goals of Mojo. Much more related are things like Codon (https://exaloop.io), and the metaprogramming models in Terra (https://terralang.org), Nim (https://nim-lang.org), and Zig (https://ziglang.org).

But Chapel is great! It has a lot of good ideas, especially for distributed-memory programming, which is its historical focus. It is more related to Legion (https://legion.stanford.edu, https://regent-lang.org), parallel & distributed Fortran, ZPL, etc.