[nem-en] loving Nemerle

[Greg Fitzgerald]

> Do you feel that performance side of the language fulfilled your expectations?

The compiler is definitely very slow by comparison to C/C++ compilers
I've used.  I haven't compared it to any languages with type inference
though.

What I find odd is that compiling a 'Hello World' takes a second or
two, and compiling a 2000 LOC program utilizing type inference
everywhere  doesn't take much longer.

> Unfortunately OCaml's syntax and lack of libraries prevented me from
> doing any real programming there. And here we come to Nemerle :-)

OCaml's libraries aren't too bad if you grew up in the POSIX world,
but they are definitely not as intuitive as .NET.  The main thing that
turned me off OCaml is the lack of built in Unicode support.

Sure would be nice if currying were as easy in Nemerle as OCaml or
Haskell.  I find that the source of most of my bugs is in maintaining
state within classes.  I try to clean things up by currying state
through the system, which isn't impossible in Nemerle, but it's not so
easy that doing so just becomes a 'way of life' like in OCaml.

> Sadly, we are not too far in Nemerle with regard to IDE support.

Auto-completion sure drops the learning curve for a new set of
libraries, and a debugger would be so very useful.  How do you guys
debug?

Greg