Nim Nuggets: Nim talk at Strange Loop 2021

[Stefan Koch]

On Sunday, 17 October 2021 at 05:26:25 UTC, Araq wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 October 2021 at 04:17:38 UTC, jfondren wrote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2VRuZo2pdA
>>
>> About 50% of it is inadvertent praise for D. The rest is ARC 
>> and C++ interop.
>
> Ha, good one. So where is D's hygienic AST macro system that 
> lets you reflect over types? No, string mixins and experimental 
> std.reflection in some offside branch don't count.

I agree that D's meta-programming isn't where it should be.
My work is called core.reflect though and not std.reflection.

I think apart from views on significant whitespace NIM and D 
shouldn't be too far apart.