D vs nim

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On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 21:26:35 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 18:52:24 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> The only things I've read about nim have been on the D forums 
>> - it seems the wikipedia article is even being considered for 
>> deletion due to not being noteworthy. So I think you might 
>> have trouble finding any comparisons.
>
> Read the comments sections on other languages on Reddit 
> programming and you'll see their spam all over the place.
>
> I've never used Nim (and don't plan to because I've been turned 
> off by their constant spamming of comment threads on Reddit) 
> but the numerous comments I've seen repeatedly indicate that 
> Nim is not yet ready for real use.

To be fair, a vocal minority says the same of D. Accusations of 
linkbombing are commonplace, as is the notion that the D forums 
are "nice except for the constant go-bashing", claims that there 
is an organized secret cabal (naturally led by AA and WB) 
directing people over IRC to upvote everything D regardless of 
content, etc. Once the seed of doubt is there suddenly everyone 
saying anything positive about D is probably/maybe/possibly just 
part of the mob.

On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 17:28:14 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
[...]
> * feature set is very rich, many features (semantic and syntax) 
> not found
> in D or improving the ones in D, eg hygenic macros,

I really like how younger languages can afford to take ideas and 
find inspiration in eachother. Everyone is better off having 
mindsets along the lines of "that's awesome, how can we do 
better" as opposed to "Simpsons did it, you just stole that from 
XYZ."