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Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)

61 points by TheWiggles 5mo ago

vmsp 5mo ago
It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often
- Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
  It really could use a good corporate sponsor and a couple of widely known success stories.
  - kitd 5mo ago
    AIUI, Reddit uses it for some internal tools. They would be a good backer.
  - nallerooth 5mo ago
    From what I've seen it _seems_ the language's creator is not interested in corporate sponsorship. It's been some time since I was interested in Nim, so I don't have any direct references to this claim. A web search would probably provide several examples. It was one of the main reasons why I decided to focus on other languages.
    - dom96 5mo ago
      In many ways it already has a corporate sponsor (and has had it for many years now). It's actually the company that built this framework.
  - systems 5mo ago
    this is a who comes first, chicken or egg Nim is one of those languages that tries to be everything for everyone, trying to fill the range from python to C++ If Nim had any strategic edge anywhere, someone smart would have picked it up to build something very successful and it would have had more sponsors
    - __MatrixMan__ 5mo ago
      It sits in the sweet spot for projects like nitter--which is not the kind of work that's attracting investment right now, but that's due to markets being a clumsy tool for deciding what should be done and nothing to do with Nim's merits.
    - nulltrace 5mo ago
      Being a generalist isn't easy.
falcor84 5mo ago
I'm wondering why this was posted now, seeing how the latest actual code commit there is from 2 years ago, and the documentation section of the readme is literally a blank header: > ## Documentation
SJMG 5mo ago
Nim is a cool language—not sure why this is being shared now though; this repo has been dormant for some time. A newer effort is Sarcophagus, https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879 https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879 https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus
jadbox 5mo ago
If I remember right, Nim sprang out from the D language community and uses it for different modules. It's been a long time since I kept up with the Nim community.
dzonga 5mo ago
wonder why they didn't just copy what Golang did in terms of the router with it's IO writer / reader spec ?
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61 points by TheWiggles 5mo ago

vmsp 5mo ago

It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often

Octoth0rpe 5mo ago
It really could use a good corporate sponsor and a couple of widely known success stories.
- kitd 5mo ago
  AIUI, Reddit uses it for some internal tools. They would be a good backer.
- nallerooth 5mo ago
  From what I've seen it _seems_ the language's creator is not interested in corporate sponsorship. It's been some time since I was interested in Nim, so I don't have any direct references to this claim. A web search would probably provide several examples. It was one of the main reasons why I decided to focus on other languages.
  - dom96 5mo ago
    In many ways it already has a corporate sponsor (and has had it for many years now). It's actually the company that built this framework.
- systems 5mo ago
  this is a who comes first, chicken or egg Nim is one of those languages that tries to be everything for everyone, trying to fill the range from python to C++ If Nim had any strategic edge anywhere, someone smart would have picked it up to build something very successful and it would have had more sponsors
  - __MatrixMan__ 5mo ago
    It sits in the sweet spot for projects like nitter--which is not the kind of work that's attracting investment right now, but that's due to markets being a clumsy tool for deciding what should be done and nothing to do with Nim's merits.
  - nulltrace 5mo ago
    Being a generalist isn't easy.

falcor84 5mo ago

I'm wondering why this was posted now, seeing how the latest actual code commit there is from 2 years ago, and the documentation section of the readme is literally a blank header: > ## Documentation

SJMG 5mo ago

Nim is a cool language—not sure why this is being shared now though; this repo has been dormant for some time. A newer effort is Sarcophagus, https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879 https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879 https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus

jadbox 5mo ago

If I remember right, Nim sprang out from the D language community and uses it for different modules. It's been a long time since I kept up with the Nim community.

dzonga 5mo ago

wonder why they didn't just copy what Golang did in terms of the router with it's IO writer / reader spec ?

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