Apologies if this isn't appropriate for this channel, but it's a fun crash-out.
Some takeaways:
- Nim solves 95% of the problems in this video, the remainder are down to
preference and/or performance requirements.
- Nim is mentioned, for its hard return handling requirement and `discard`.
- I think the language world is diversifying in an important way:
Native-compiled languages are bifurcating between systems-oriented and
data-oriented language design (Rust, Zig vs Nim, V, Odin, D, Go), where the
data-oriented languages are able to subsume the domains of scripting languages,
and this is super important for reclaiming performance lost to the JS-ification
of everything.
- In most scenarios, a data-oriented native-compiled language will be a force
multiplier and do quite well in most products, but that the choice is even
available is still largely a secret to most firms. So leverage the competitive
advantage while you can.
- Kinda glad I bounced off C++ as a kid. It might follow COBOL in being a
long-lived hyper-niche, an entire domain in and of itself that people can commit
their lives to.