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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? (self.programming)
submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist to c/programming
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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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[–] jasory -1 points 1 year ago

This requires many assumptions that you or any computational system have no formal reason to make. Having an interpreter that just guesstimates exactly how you want the program structured, is going to run into problems when you, say want to extend the program.