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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I'd like to see Nim get that growth.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The most beautiful language. Why doesn’t every language have pipes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Why doesn’t every language have pipes?

Mario's favorite character

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I find Universal Function Call Syntax a much nicer solution than pipes, although I don't think it's quite as broad.

For example, taking the example from elixir's home page:

"Elixir" |> String.graphemes() |> Enum.frequencies()

would be

"Elixir".graphemes.frequences

in something like D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I personally find that syntax a bit confusing because it looks like it's traversing members of structs/records/objects. It also looks like the composition operator in Haskell but is read in opposite order.

I'm sure it's perfectly fine when actually working in D but it's not as obvious as pipes imo.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

You can add parenthesis if you prefer