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Nim is an amazing language that suffers from a lack of momentum and hype. Technically, there’s little reason why it shouldn’t be a good choice for many programm
by darthrupert 6y ago
Nim is an amazing language that suffers from a lack of momentum and hype. Technically, there’s little reason why it shouldn’t be a good choice for many programming problems.
Reality doesn’t work like that, of course. Hype is important, and not just because that will mean more libraries. Hype motivates people to do things they wouldn’t have otherwise done at all. Rust demonstrates this well.
- throwaway815190 6y ago> Nim is an amazing language that suffers from a lack of momentum and hype. And good multithreading and network libraries.
- planetis 6y agoIs it hype, or controversy then? :P Latest development in Nim is reference counting is planned to replace the GC https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6549 https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6549. However this is done in a non-breaking way and their isn't much criticism, except the development effort and the countless bugs that were introduced. Hopefully this will lead to better multi threading which is a shortcoming of the language, thus opening new fields.