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A lot of previous contributors to Nim are currently working on an experimental fork due to disagreements with the development of the official compiler: https://

by auxym 5y ago

A lot of previous contributors to Nim are currently working on an experimental fork due to disagreements with the development of the official compiler: https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull

rpdillon 5y ago
Was totally unaware of this. The Readme: > For now it's closer to an alternative with most deviations appearing in the standard library, mostly in the form of deleting much of it. Yikes. I've found that languages with a small standard library have deep dependency trees for imported packages. I hope this is a stepping stone to a different standard library, rather than an end goal in-and-of itself.
- haxscramper 5y ago
  Actually the phrasing in the readme is not correct - I will change it later, but now I want to say that the objective is not deleting "much" of it, but rather cleaning up old and deprecated modules, or providing alternative solutions (for things like os/json that historically were a point of friction).
nimmer 5y ago
> A lot of previous contributors Not really. The fork looks pretty dormant.
- haxscramper 5y ago
  I think better phrasing would indeed be something like "several former core developers" - of course we can't really measure up to the size of the original community, and don't yet have any paid developers (like Araq and narimiran [1] in the mainline - although since the end of September there were not a lot of activity on their part as well - [2] ~30 commits (~23 that are marked `[backport]`) and even less [3] for narimiran) [1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8540#55418 https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8540#55418 [2] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=Araq https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=Araq [3] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=narimiran https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=narimir... Right now, it seems like most of the work on the mainline seems to be done by community members.

by auxym 5y ago

rpdillon 5y ago

Was totally unaware of this. The Readme: > For now it's closer to an alternative with most deviations appearing in the standard library, mostly in the form of deleting much of it. Yikes. I've found that languages with a small standard library have deep dependency trees for imported packages. I hope this is a stepping stone to a different standard library, rather than an end goal in-and-of itself.

haxscramper 5y ago
Actually the phrasing in the readme is not correct - I will change it later, but now I want to say that the objective is not deleting "much" of it, but rather cleaning up old and deprecated modules, or providing alternative solutions (for things like os/json that historically were a point of friction).

nimmer 5y ago

> A lot of previous contributors Not really. The fork looks pretty dormant.

haxscramper 5y ago
I think better phrasing would indeed be something like "several former core developers" - of course we can't really measure up to the size of the original community, and don't yet have any paid developers (like Araq and narimiran [1] in the mainline - although since the end of September there were not a lot of activity on their part as well - [2] ~30 commits (~23 that are marked `[backport]`) and even less [3] for narimiran) [1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8540#55418 https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8540#55418 [2] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=Araq https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=Araq [3] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=narimiran https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commits/devel?author=narimir... Right now, it seems like most of the work on the mainline seems to be done by community members.