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nitlang / nit

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Nit language

4Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
258GitHub stars
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Nit language

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:04:58 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-01-08 13:46:28 UTC to 2015-01-08 17:56:21 UTC.

0122015-01-08 13:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-08 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 8, 13:002015-01-08 14:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-08 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-08 15:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-08 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 8, 15:002015-01-08 16:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-08 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-08 17:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-08 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJan 8, 17:00

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jan 8, 13:002015-01-08 13:00:00 UTC2015-01-08 14:00:00 UTC101
Jan 8, 14:002015-01-08 14:00:00 UTC2015-01-08 15:00:00 UTC101
Jan 8, 15:002015-01-08 15:00:00 UTC2015-01-08 16:00:00 UTC000
Jan 8, 16:002015-01-08 16:00:00 UTC2015-01-08 17:00:00 UTC101
Jan 8, 17:002015-01-08 17:00:00 UTC2015-01-08 18:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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I'm a developer on the Nit project, I would like to clarify a few points. Classes and types are definitely static in Nit. Class refinement is applied at compilation and any ambiguity is reported at that time. After using this language for a few years, I'm now convinced that class refinement is an improvement to manage preoccupations in projects of any size. It adds an additional layer to the classic object oriented languages. Nit uses classes to encapsulated data only, and modules to separate preoccupations. It saves us from using services classes and instead we can organize our methods in the real receiver of each behavior. Let's take the example of a game. In module `game_logic`, we define the `Game` class with all the required methods and attributes for the full logic. In another module `graphics`, we reopen `Game` to add the `draw` me
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thod and the attributes to store the images. We end up with two modules, one that is simple to read and easy to test, and the other with only graphical preoccupations. We can even use class refinement to apply optimization without complicating the base game logic. See the Hunted Dino project for an example of such a structure: https://github.com/privat/nit/tree/master/examples/mnit_dino...
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