Parallel Rogue-like benchmark

[Geancarlo Rocha]

Not really intrinsic to the language(syntactically), but there is
the "soft realtime GC", meaning you can control when and for how
long the gc can do the collecting. Sounds like a lovely feature
for games.

http://nimrod-code.org/gc.html

On Friday, 23 August 2013 at 17:33:12 UTC, Ramon wrote:
> I like it and see an interesting mix of concepts in Nimrod.
>
> That said, I didn't and still don't see the major breakthrough 
> or
> value of {} vs. begin/end vs. Python style. While I agree that
> Python enforces some visual style I also see that this question
> always comes down to personal philosophy and discipline. You can
> write clean looking code in D as well as in Python. If someone
> really really feels, say, begin/end to be earthshakingly,
> strategically better than {}, he is free to edit the language
> spec and to create his private D (or whatever) with begin/end
> rather than {}.
>
> More importantly, I feel that whole sloc thingy misses the major
> point. Code is written for 2 situations, once for the compiler
> (which doesn't care too much about human readability) and, imo
> way more important, maintenance. *That*, maintenance, is what
> readability is or should be mostly all about.
>
> I'll keep an occasional eye on Nimrod but I fail to spot 
> anything
> major or strategic enough to warrant even considering leaving D
> for Nimrod.
>
> R