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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I'd like to see Nim get that growth.

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[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

At first glance, sure it would be easier to read, but if you have to look for the types then things get much harder. Either the types will be in comments, on different lines, or in a different file entirely.

This is pretty much how OCaml works and you can omit the types altogether if you don't specify an interface file, in most cases. But it's not hard to deal with in practice since IDEs (and text editor + LSP plugin) can easily show the inferred type on inspection.

Nevertheless, I don't really find Rust to be ugly either.