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None of these things say why Nim is good. All of these languages, despite all these failings, have been used to good effect. Why is Nim good, what does it do th
by sqeaky 10y ago
None of these things say why Nim is good. All of these languages, despite all these failings, have been used to good effect. Why is Nim good, what does it do that makes it better where these fail?
- coldtea 10y ago>All of these languages, despite all these failings, have been used to good effect. That's a pretty low bar.
- sqeaky 10y agoThis isn't a real response or accurate. C++ is used it countless video games, Science simulations, applications and operating systems. Rust is new (only 7 years old), but is being integrated into the renderer for a major browser and has a library packages that is growing. Go about as old as Rust and is used to make a ton of real world services including a large chunk of the services at Google. Nim is older than Go and Rust, and has what to show for it? It sounds like a negative and leading question, but I really don't mean it that way. What are some interesting projects made in Nim? Even hobbyist project can be meaningful.
- nimmer 10y agoLanguages and other projects backed by large companies are known for growing fast. Java, Visual Basic, C#, Go, Rust... Community-driven projects, generally speaking, tend to have slower growths, e.g. Python, Linux.
- apotheon 10y agoI think the implicit claim here is that Nim doesn't have any of those problems.