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Honestly seems like a good move. It also isn't likely to be very difficult with the help of LLMs.
by dom96 26d ago
Honestly seems like a good move. It also isn't likely to be very difficult with the help of LLMs.
- MrDrMcCoy 26d agoCurious as an outsider: what sorts of problems are there in the Nim world, and why would things improve by switching to Go?
- mathverse 26d agoBasically lack of polish. Nim's compiler just keeps evolving around unfinished and unpolished ideas never reaching a momentum. It's a research project of its BDFL and he is alienating the most senior developers and contributors to Nim's ecosystems (ie Zedeus).
- mitxela 25d agoMore stable, commonly supported platform I presume. You don't want to be on a snowflake platform for a long running project, it only causes endless problems.
- dom96 24d agoGo has Google behind it. It's a much more established language with far more mature packages and a much bigger ecosystem. If you're using Nim then you're relying on few libraries/tools written by hobbyists who don't have time to ensure they work well, or even more likely you're having to write these yourself. But the bigger problem is the culture of the Nim community and its leadership. I made a hard decision to stop spending my free time contributing to it a few years ago now and I'm glad I did.