crystal VS Nim

Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly.

https://crystal-lang.org/

If you like the Ruby syntax (but want a statically typed language), you might want to take a look at Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

> Crystal is statically typed and type errors are caught early by the compiler, eliminating a range of type-related errors at runtime.

I really enjoyed using Crystal last year. It is a very ergonomic language with a featureful standard library. I was tempted to use it again this year, but I figured I should use this opportunity to try something new. After considering several languages including Go, F#, Nim, and Raku, I decided to go with Gleam.

Temp file issue is debunked here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41684848

Dir module works fine, though maybe the docs could be improved. https://crystal-lang.org/api/1.13.3/Dir.html . The stdlib code is also highly readable: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/blob/d14d04562/src/d... shows that #each_child just calls #read and yields it to the block, so I don't think this is really a wart :)

27. Crystal - $77,104

I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

    # A very basic HTTP server

> I'm interested to see whether the final feature set will be larger than what you'd get by creating a type-safe language with a pythonic syntax and compiling that to native, rather than building custom hardware.

It almost sounds like you're asking for Nim ( https://nim-lang.org/ ); and there are some projects using it for microcontroller programming, since it compiles down to C (for ESP32, last I saw).

FWIW, Nim (the programming language) is certainly interesting and possibly underrated.

https://nim-lang.org/

All these organizations[1] using nim in production must disagree with you then.

[1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Organizations-using-Nim

With function overloading and templates

You just use a `hash` function in your library code and user has to implement a version of it that accepts the Foo type.

To resolve the scope problem, Nim uses templates[1] with `dirty` pragma (makes template unhygienic), but there is also a `mixin`[2] statement for later static binding.

0 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/lib/pure/collections/tables....

1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/78983f1876726a49c69d656...

2 - https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#generics-mixin-stateme...

Check out Nim[0] - it's strongly typed, with good type inference, clean elegant syntax, memory management is automatic (optional gc, default is ARC + small footprint cycle collector), compiles to small single binaries (Hello World is less than 100 kb), has powerful metaprogramming and lsp support.

Nim compiles to C/C++ and then to native code, so performance is on the same level as Rust/C/C++. You can also compile Nim to js/wasm and run the same code in the web.

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

Programming Language: Nim

Take a look at Nim.

You get C performance, with the readability of Python.

https://nim-lang.org/

It’s not exhaustive/definitive yet (should be for the actual release), but this might be helpful:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/changelog.md