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Nim on paper is great; it has many advantages over Rust in the general purpose "niche". Tragically, it's kind of stillborn. It's older than Rust, has orders of
by SJMG 3y ago
Nim on paper is great; it has many advantages over Rust in the general purpose "niche". Tragically, it's kind of stillborn. It's older than Rust, has orders of magnitude less mindshare, and has no companies with serious technical reputations backing it.
- darthrupert 3y agoYeah, you're not wrong about the mindshare problem. But it somehow at least in my mind differs from other "stillborn" older languages in that it keeps improving. The end result is that it still feels modern in the year 2023.
- TylerE 3y agoSo any language that isn't sponsored by Google/MS/Amazon/Mozilla from day 1 should just die?