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		pcwalton on Jan 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What makes Nim practical? You can do it with a compiler plugin; I suspect that's what the parent comment was referring to. Admittedly compiler plugins are pretty experimental at this time.

CyberShadow on Jan 23, 2015 [–]

Sorry about that. I haven't tried this myself, I was told by a Rust user that its CTFE was on par with D's. I guess he was mistaken.

Jweb_Guru on Jan 24, 2015 | [–]

Not even close, sadly.

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