Nim programming language finally hit 1.0

[JN]

On Monday, 30 September 2019 at 09:21:30 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Atm, I'm mainly using Kotlin and I have to say that a small set 
> of clever and well thought-out features can get you a long way. 
> Do I miss some of D's features? Not really, because Kotlin 
> provides enough useful and battle-tested features that you need 
> 90% of the time [1]. Once I missed `static if`, but I could 
> live without it.
>
> Mind you, Kotlin has some restrictions due to the fact that it 
> has to be a 100% compatible with Java/JVM. But even when you 
> use Kotlin/Native (without the Java universe, i.e. modules and 
> libraries) you can get quite far. I think D should aim at that.
>

I think Kotlin's dependency on Java/JVM is actually a benefit, 
because they know what worked and didn't work in Java and could 
work on improving that. Also, they are 100% behind the OOP 
paradigm, so they can introduce most features that benefit that. 
For example features like data classes or singleton objects are 
very useful, even if they are mostly a language syntax sugar for 
certain design patterns.