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From my interaction with the Nim community, I came to the conclusion that nim could be more popular if its founder devolved decision making to scale up the comm
by esafak 11mo ago
From my interaction with the Nim community, I came to the conclusion that nim could be more popular if its founder devolved decision making to scale up the community. I think he likes it the way it is; small, but his. He is Torvaldsesque in his social interactions.
- xigoi 11mo agoPlease no. Design by committee would lead to another C++.
- almostgotcaught 11mo agoThe second or third most popular language of all time? God forbid lol
- xigoi 11mo agoPopular does not mean good. Tobacco smoking is also popular.
- almostgotcaught 11mo agoDo you think this is clever? For a metaphor to be relevant to a discussion it has to be fitting, not just a dunk.
- xigoi 11mo agoIt’s not a metaphor. I was giving a counterexample to your implied claim that popularity is an indicator of quality.
- kanaffa12345 11mo agoThat wasn't an implied claim because we're not discussing metrics for judging quality.
- venturecruelty 11mo agoYou're right. It's everyone's least-favorite gotcha. Reminds me of this: Waiter: "How is everything?" Customer: "Great!" Waiter, disgusted: "Even war?"
- pjmlp 11mo agoLanguages with design by committee are a plenty, including all mainstream ones, not a single one is still being developed by a single person.
- oscillonoscope 11mo agoI worked in nim for a little bit and it truly has a lot of potential but ultimately abandoned it for the same reason. It's never going to grow beyond the founder's playground.
- nallerooth 11mo agoI feel the same way - as I suspect a lot of people here do. Nim posts are always upvoted and usually people say nice things about the language in the comments.. but there are few who claim to actually -use- the language for more than a small private project, if even that.
- cb321 11mo agoThe only way to really test out a programming language is by trying it out or reading how someone else approached a problem that you're interested in/know about. There are over 2200 nimble packages now. Maybe not an eye-popping number, but there's still a good chance that somewhere in the json at https://github.com/nim-lang/packages https://github.com/nim-lang/packages you will find something interesting. There is also RosettaCode.org which has a lot of Nim example code. This, of course, does not speak to the main point of this subthread about the founder but just to some "side ideas".