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My main gripe with Nim is that documentation (even for the standard library!) is in absolute shambles. Not to mention the lack of an ecosystem. I think that au
by xrisk 6y ago
My main gripe with Nim is that documentation (even for the standard library!) is in absolute shambles. Not to mention the lack of an ecosystem.
I think that authors of Nim libraries get so tied up in their superiority over having types and being compiled that they forget that most devs don’t really care about these things on their own. It’s only when these things are combined with good documentation and tooling (see Rust for example) that they become useful.
- tyingq 6y agoI'd guess a fair amount of that is just because it's a much smaller team of folks, with fewer resources.
- planetis 6y agoHey that's unfair :(. Nim's dev team had done user surveys for three years now https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-results-2019.html https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/02/18/community-survey-result... and improved the docs significantly. Rust has excellent docs but also a larger dev-team.
- ilaksh 6y agoI liked the documentation when I was looking at it before. What are you talking about "shambles"?