Programming

I don't have proper experience with it, I just built a small prototype with it back in 2021, to evaluate it for a project. But yeah, apparently these were my notes:

Nim: Significant whitespace [derogatory], no interfaces/traits, imports throw random functions into scope like in Python (plays a big role with supposed object-orientation, as methods don't get imported along with a type; they're loosely attached and just imported along), somewhat ugly syntax

Apparently, past-me wasn't as big on the syntax. 😅

But I can see why, because this is the code I wrote back then, apparently (I wanted to create a OS configuration framework à la Puppet, Ansible etc.):

main.nim:

import strformat
import role, host

let host2 = Role(
  description: "sdadsj",
  code: proc (host: Host) = echo "sakjd"
)

echo host2


type Role2 = ref object of RootObj
  description: string
method deploy(self: Role2) {.base.} = discard


type KWriteConfig5 = ref object of Role2
  cheese: string
method deploy(self: KWriteConfig5) = echo fmt"Deploying: {self.cheese}"


let test = KWriteConfig5(
  description: "Deploy KWriteConfig5.",
  cheese: "cake"
)

test.deploy()


let rolerole = Role2(
  description: "RoleRole",
)

rolerole.deploy()

host.nim:

type Host* = object

role.nim:

import host

type Role* = ref object of RootObj
  description*: string
method deploy(self: Role) {.base.} = discard

Certainly some syntax elements in there where I have not even the faintest guess anymore what they would do...