Does this mean that Nim 1.0 will be postponed even further?
That's OK, it's better to get it right, and it's still useful for small projects in the meantime. But Nim seems like a language that is never truly finished.
I like this direction. I tried to avoid "ref" in my last Nim project, but it's too hard to do that for every type the way the language is currently designed.
Indeed, Araq's plan is to release v1 ASAP (he said by the end of this year on IRC) and implement the ideas described in this article afterwards for a Nim v2.
That's OK, it's better to get it right, and it's still useful for small projects in the meantime. But Nim seems like a language that is never truly finished.
I like this direction. I tried to avoid "ref" in my last Nim project, but it's too hard to do that for every type the way the language is currently designed.