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Okay, but you're ignoring the thrust of my question, which is "why do I care". Your name is nimmer so it's safe to say we understand why you care, but help me u

Okay, but you're ignoring the thrust of my question, which is "why do I care". Your name is nimmer so it's safe to say we understand why you care, but help me understand why I care about the 3rd-runner: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr,%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6,%2Fm%2F09gp44h https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F09g... I'm only comparing it to those languages because of the direct comparisons many others have many in this thread. And popularity != quality, but age is also a very poor measure of success.

Phillips126 7y ago
Had Nim been developed by or had funding from a large company (Google, Mozilla) I'm sure that chart would be much different. Instead, Nim is built by a group of volunteers contributing to a language they love. I am not a contributor, but I also quickly fell in love with the language. I felt incredibly productive and being able to build tiny binaries that were cross platform was awesome compared to my old Golang binaries which tend to be heavy (bundling everything into a single binary). Also coming from a web background with little system/application programming knowledge I was able to pick it up really quick. It really is a "better python" in my opinion. The language is incredibly easy to read and write, has really good JSON support (which is a big plus for me) and is incredibly fast. To add more reasons to try, Visual Studio Code has a really good plugin for the language.
galangalalgol 7y ago
Nimmer was the parent. I actually like rust more. Though all three are distant in popularity to java or python, so popularity is probably not going to be the distinguishing characteristic between them. The reason i chimed in is precisely because people keep directly comparing rust and go and they ar all horribly misguided. Sure, you vould write a web backend in rust (or just the slow bits like dropbox did) but you do it because go turned out to be too slow, not because that is a primary use case for rust. And while you could probably write drivers in go, why?

Phillips126 7y ago

Had Nim been developed by or had funding from a large company (Google, Mozilla) I'm sure that chart would be much different. Instead, Nim is built by a group of volunteers contributing to a language they love. I am not a contributor, but I also quickly fell in love with the language. I felt incredibly productive and being able to build tiny binaries that were cross platform was awesome compared to my old Golang binaries which tend to be heavy (bundling everything into a single binary). Also coming from a web background with little system/application programming knowledge I was able to pick it up really quick. It really is a "better python" in my opinion. The language is incredibly easy to read and write, has really good JSON support (which is a big plus for me) and is incredibly fast. To add more reasons to try, Visual Studio Code has a really good plugin for the language.

galangalalgol 7y ago

Nimmer was the parent. I actually like rust more. Though all three are distant in popularity to java or python, so popularity is probably not going to be the distinguishing characteristic between them. The reason i chimed in is precisely because people keep directly comparing rust and go and they ar all horribly misguided. Sure, you vould write a web backend in rust (or just the slow bits like dropbox did) but you do it because go turned out to be too slow, not because that is a primary use case for rust. And while you could probably write drivers in go, why?