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 5 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 29 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 4 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 3 hours ago [-]
wonder why they didn't just copy what Golang did in terms of the router with it's IO writer / reader spec ?
https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879
https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus
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
> ## Documentation