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Complains about the "pretentiousness" of Ruby developers (Out all the languages!). Proceeds to mention Nim. Rub his mustache, drink his kombucha a put another

Complains about the "pretentiousness" of Ruby developers (Out all the languages!). Proceeds to mention Nim. Rub his mustache, drink his kombucha a put another vinyl.

hobby-coder-guy 6y ago
This comment made me laugh. Thank you. Also, Rust is better than Nim, Kefir is more cool, moustaches aren’t as great as man-buns, and reel-to-reel is the only way to listen to music.
thom 6y ago
This is a real shame, I think, because the same things that made Ruby and its community such a revelation in the early years of this century (as a sort of revolt against enterprise development and especially the Java ecosystem), make me quite like Nim in a world with the complexity of C++ and the restraints of Rust. To be clear I happen to like all these languages but I also value their many contrasting personalities.
dialamac 6y ago
I don’t see your point. A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go. Nim is certainly not the only player in this realm, but far as I know there isn’t a “Nim Drama” Twitter or tumblr. The drama queen stereotype of Ruby and Rails is very well earned on a repeated basis. All the communities have had their dramas but Ruby and Rust to a lesser extent seem to attract it a lot more as a pattern.
- cambalache 6y ago
  > A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go. You guys make this too easy. Unless it was sarcasm, so whoosh me, and chapeau!
  - ImprobableTruth 6y ago
    Well, you sure make a good case for Rubyists being incredibly pretentious.
- ForHackernews 6y ago
  Hardly anyone uses Nim. It's extremely niche, even compared to something like Rust. That's why there's no Nim infighting. Before you can have dozens of people fighting about a thing, you need more than a dozen people to care about that thing.
  - dom96 6y ago
    Oh believe me. There definitely is infighting. The people doing the infighting just haven’t started trying to involve the wider audience (yet?) :)

Complains about the "pretentiousness" of Ruby developers (Out all the languages!). Proceeds to mention Nim. Rub his mustache, drink his kombucha a put another vinyl.

hobby-coder-guy 6y ago

This comment made me laugh. Thank you. Also, Rust is better than Nim, Kefir is more cool, moustaches aren’t as great as man-buns, and reel-to-reel is the only way to listen to music.

thom 6y ago

This is a real shame, I think, because the same things that made Ruby and its community such a revelation in the early years of this century (as a sort of revolt against enterprise development and especially the Java ecosystem), make me quite like Nim in a world with the complexity of C++ and the restraints of Rust. To be clear I happen to like all these languages but I also value their many contrasting personalities.

dialamac 6y ago

I don’t see your point. A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go. Nim is certainly not the only player in this realm, but far as I know there isn’t a “Nim Drama” Twitter or tumblr. The drama queen stereotype of Ruby and Rails is very well earned on a repeated basis. All the communities have had their dramas but Ruby and Rust to a lesser extent seem to attract it a lot more as a pattern.

cambalache 6y ago
> A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go. You guys make this too easy. Unless it was sarcasm, so whoosh me, and chapeau!
- ImprobableTruth 6y ago
  Well, you sure make a good case for Rubyists being incredibly pretentious.
ForHackernews 6y ago
Hardly anyone uses Nim. It's extremely niche, even compared to something like Rust. That's why there's no Nim infighting. Before you can have dozens of people fighting about a thing, you need more than a dozen people to care about that thing.
- dom96 6y ago
  Oh believe me. There definitely is infighting. The people doing the infighting just haven’t started trying to involve the wider audience (yet?) :)