Carbon got your eye? Using C++ libraries today from Jakt & Nim

[@MrJCraft]

D has had some recent updates to c++ interop that hasnt been updated on the website yet its currently being rewritten as of the recent Dconf because one of the talks really expanded the interop a lot more so look forward to that.

[@contextfree]

Thanks much for the updates on that!

[@trustable4728]

Seeing Nim and Jakt together in a video is great!

[@souls.7033]

Saw Jakt.. had to come in and like!

[@andrew121410]

Same

[@bigmistqke]

💯

[@yeppiidev]

was about to comment about this!

[@alst4817]

Eww classes!

[@Cronofear]

IMO Nim is the best designed languages of the "c++ killers". And it doesn't even try to be a "c++ killer".

[@homelessrobot]

I like the core of nim, but it has become a disjointed feature pile.

[@gandalfgrey91]

@@homelessrobotnice so its a javascript killer too

[@homelessrobot]

@@gandalfgrey91 my guess is it's mainly a nim killer

[@alst4817]

@@homelessrobot😂

[@dariusduesentrieb]

Nim♥

[@Lantos1618]

nim gang

[@valigo]

By the way Jai has really strong interop with C++ through the bindings generator that is shipped together with the compiler

[@contextfree]

I hadn't looked into that yet. Thanks for the tip!

[@_slier]

do you have access to close beta?

[@valigo]

@@_slier I do yeah, I also follow one of the compiler devs who regularly streams on twitch, so was able to witness (haha) a lot of work on C++ bindings generator

[@JulioLabarca]

Great video!

[@gideonunger7284]

i like that swift syntax highlighting for jakt xD syntax is quite compatible.

[@contextfree]

JT also let me know now that there's a vscode extension in the Jakt repo. Not yet on marketplace, though, which is why I didn't find it when I looked for it before making the video.

[@gideonunger7284]

@@contextfree yeah he did a great stream on how they even did a minimal but effective auto completion in their plugin.

[@eduardabramovich1216]

Jakt seems to be like an evolution of Objective-C.

[@contextfree]

What are the biggest similarities?

[@cbbcbb6803]

What programming language is the C++ compiler written in? And what language was that compiler generating languade written? If C++ and Rust and Python were written in C, then what was C written in? Can the source code that created C++ be modified to make C++ do whatever it needs to do to be better? I do not have a clue about creating programming languages, I'm just mystified by it.

[@contextfree]

I suspect the original C++ compiler was written in C, but I haven't double-checked that. But compiler bootstrapping and self-hosting is a fun topic. But it's also ok to make one language in another. Maybe you should go through Bob Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters which is available online for free or purchase.

[@hansolo7988]

Once you get a compiler up and running, you can re-write the compiler in the language which it compiles 🤯

[@TechnologyBudda]

Please do a video comparing Nim's ARC/ORC vs Rust

[@contextfree]

I've been using ORC some, but I haven't dug deep into it. I really need to do that, including looking at the generated code and so on.

[@johnmukendi7650]

I'm unstoppable I'm a Porsche with no brakes

[@technologicalwaste7612]

"2 weeks since I last updated Jakt ... "' You do this just to torture the language creator?

[@kim15742]

Nice album cover

[@bigmistqke]

loooool