6 comments

  • SJMG 5 hours ago
    Nim is a cool language—not sure why this is being shared now though; this repo has been dormant for some time. A newer effort is Sarcophagus,

    https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879

    https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus

  • vmsp 6 hours ago
    It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often
    • Octoth0rpe 5 hours ago
      It really could use a good corporate sponsor and a couple of widely known success stories.
      • nallerooth 4 hours ago
        From what I've seen it _seems_ the language's creator is not interested in corporate sponsorship. It's been some time since I was interested in Nim, so I don't have any direct references to this claim. A web search would probably provide several examples. It was one of the main reasons why I decided to focus on other languages.
        • dom96 32 minutes ago
          In many ways it already has a corporate sponsor (and has had it for many years now). It's actually the company that built this framework.
      • kitd 5 hours ago
        AIUI, Reddit uses it for some internal tools. They would be a good backer.
      • systems 3 hours ago
        this is a who comes first, chicken or egg

        Nim is one of those languages that tries to be everything for everyone, trying to fill the range from python to C++

        If Nim had any strategic edge anywhere, someone smart would have picked it up to build something very successful and it would have had more sponsors

        • __MatrixMan__ 2 hours ago
          It sits in the sweet spot for projects like nitter--which is not the kind of work that's attracting investment right now, but that's due to markets being a clumsy tool for deciding what should be done and nothing to do with Nim's merits.
  • falcor84 6 hours ago
    I'm wondering why this was posted now, seeing how the latest actual code commit there is from 2 years ago, and the documentation section of the readme is literally a blank header:

    > ## Documentation

  • jadbox 4 hours ago
    If I remember right, Nim sprang out from the D language community and uses it for different modules. It's been a long time since I kept up with the Nim community.
  • dzonga 2 hours ago
    wonder why they didn't just copy what Golang did in terms of the router with it's IO writer / reader spec ?