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Nim.

Main: http://nim-lang.org

NES emulator (compiled to JavaScript, runs in the browser): https://hookrace.net/nimes/

Simple 2D game: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-...

More examples: https://nim-by-example.github.io/

Nim has pythonesque syntax, with Pascal/Delphi roots, fast compile times, portability (compiles down to C, JavaScript, LLVM), strong metaprogramming support, seamless FFI, optional GC, and a lot more.

It doesn't have Rust's ultimate safety, although it has quite a bit -- e.g., it can track which thread accesses what for concurrency (in a limited but extremely useful way).

I'm a fan; It looks like the fun of Python but the speed of C/C++. I haven't had a chance to start a project in Nim - hopefully, in 2017.

Happy to see this mentioned here! My Nim book[1] is also going to be finally published in 2017. Lots of great things to look forward to in 2017 for Nim :)

1 - https://manning.com/books/nim-in-action?a_aid=niminaction&a_...

Great dom96, I have the pre-release and i'm really enjoying it. When I get a hang of Nim I wanna create a set of Youtube "Learning Nim" screencasts since Nim based videos are scarce on Youtube.

Glad to hear you're enjoying it :)

Some Nim screencasts would be awesome. I would love to make some myself, if only I had the time...

Nim is one of the few 'new' languages with nice syntax. (others being Haskell, which could use less confusing 'operators', LiveScript and Elm)

Somehow language designers seem to cling to old syntaxes.

I mean s-expressions have their beauty. But C or VB like syntaxes always feel clunky to me.

Funny that you praise languages using ML-family syntax while complaining about language designers using "old" syntaxes.

Though I guess ML syntax is a tiny bit less ancient than either s-expression or Algol syntax, which seems to be what you are complaining about.

Really? Didn't know that :)

But after doing a search, it seems you're right. Languages with ML-family syntax weren't very popular the last 20 years. Most languages look like C or Algol these days.

I only knew that I didn't like most trailing delimitters and I knew only a few languages that didn't have them.

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