what's wrong with setting tabs to 4 spaces?
Not sure what you mean, Nim doesn’t allow tabs so that wouldn’t work
Readit Newsmarcoms commented on Nim in 2020: A Short Recap nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12... · Posted by u/leandot
Too bad nim uses a whitespace-sensitive syntax like python, something I personally dislike.
This might have been excused if they didn't also forbid tabs unless you use a hack (https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Whitespace-FAQ#tabs-vs-...), was interested in learning until I found this out
marcoms commented on Why async fn in traits are hard smallcultfollowing.com/ba... · Posted by u/azhenley
But isn't a Promise for all intents and purposes the same as a Future here?
Yes, but I think they are emphasising that only a promise will be returned. Any further type information is not given
Hm that's a bummer. It sounds like it's taking the Electron path then? Because that's exactly what I was trying to avoid.
The code is also compiled to native code, but it's written declaratively. It's not for everyone, but it's not the same as Electron. Even still you have the option to use the traditional imperative API.
marcoms commented on Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom blog.atom.io/2017/11/15/c... · Posted by u/hswolff
Curious, Why does it matter to you?
On the Atom.io website https://atom.io/ it reads "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". Well I can code in JavaScript 5 and 6. I love love it when a project sticks to web standard, and not have to worry about slangs I don't care about.
> Typescript is great at catching bugs
The same with JavaScript. Google Closure compiler and anyway most IDEs "understand" JavaScript too and catch bugs. JavaScript is dynamically typed not typeless.
Typescript is great at catching bugs which would trickle down to the end user
As someone who switched from Atom to VSCode some time ago, I'm yet to find anything that VSCode doesn't have – are there any notable examples where Atom is ahead of the curve or is it just that it has more plugins?
UI themes, and a much more cohesive default theme
marcoms commented on Sublime Text 3 Build 3132 released sublimetext.com/3dev... · Posted by u/izietto
I thought GitHub used system fonts?
They try, but there is not really predictable and simple way to select those fonts in CSS. I've had times when Courier was used on Linux because the MS fonts we installed.
I would prefer they just do font-family: monospace
The plan is to implement Node-compatible modules directly in Electrino.
I made stubs for "path", "url", "process" so that the Electron Hello World can be loaded. Doing "fs" next seems like a good idea, but I'd like to have a real-world app to test it against to see which APIs actually get hit (rather than just reimplementing all of "fs").
Admiring the optimism but having an untested reimplementation of node would make people a lot less confident in using the project