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I want it too but Nim is 13 years old so not a young language. Compare it to Zig, which is 5 years old and I don't see it coming anywhere outside its niche.
by abzug 5y ago
I want it too but Nim is 13 years old so not a young language. Compare it to Zig, which is 5 years old and I don't see it coming anywhere outside its niche.
- godDLL 5y agoI liked Zig. I liked it a lot. But it doesn't run on OSX 10.12.x which is the last OSX version I'll be using for some time. Nim, on the other hand does. It also does microcontrollers and browsers. Couldn't ask for more.
- nerdponx 5y agoA lot of the "up-and-coming" languages out there are on the order of 10 years old. Programming languages are getting better and better. The standard of adoption is so high that, without major corporate backing (like Kotlin), it takes that long to get the language good enough & "big" enough (in terms of network effects) that people can start to seriously consider using it at work. Also I think there is somewhat of a pendulum swing occurring in programming languages in general. People seem to be taking an interest in learning more and weirder programming languages, and taking interesting ideas and design patterns from those languages. And a lot of lessons learned from the "Age of Dynamically-Typed Scripting Languages in Production", too.