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Sorry to be so frank, but why are all of your posts advertisements for Nimrod in non-nimrod threads? I hope it's just infatuation or excitement(or both), rathe

by axaxs 13y ago

Sorry to be so frank, but why are all of your posts advertisements for Nimrod in non-nimrod threads? I hope it's just infatuation or excitement(or both), rather than some other more nefarious underlying reason. The language looks like it has possible merit, but the message comes off as spammy.

dom96 13y ago
I must apologise. I didn't want my advertisements to come off as spammy. I am genuinely excited about the language and I dislike that it gets so little attention. A lot of people that use it say things like "Why is this language so underrated?", "You should be advertising it more!" etc. Which is what I am trying to do. Perhaps I shouldn't be doing it this way, but other people advertise language's like Rust and Go this way too.
- axaxs 13y ago
  No worries. I do have some suggestions though, from my own perspective as an always learning developer. I took interest in go because of the website, the tour, and the hundred million blog posts that explain why go is good. This may be code beauty, a neat trick, or even benchmarks. But never would I try a language based only on a comment "you should check out go.". Why? Because people for the most part who do that are rather ignorant fanboys...the kind who try to bang nails with a screwdriver if you catch my drift. My time, to me, is valuable...I do a lot of skimming and am easily disinterested. Keep in mind many developers are like this. What I need to become interested is a concise, well laid out page telling me why Nimrod is better than what I have. I don't want to pour through docs or src, I want you to show me. Show me some snippets, some comparisons, some benchmarks, etc. And maybe not even at the same time. Plant the seed in our ears and keep us interested. I didn't try out go, or rust, or even python after the first mention, but after a progression of reads that told me it was right for me. Submit them here, to reddit, to your blog, etc. Also, don't narrow your focus to one language. It's not a competition...see what you like about other languages, what you don't, what works well, etc. With this, you learn to pick the right tool for the job. Further, you can borrow the good parts for nimrod :).
  - dom96 13y ago
    Thanks for the awesome advice! Indeed, I have been planning to do that for a long time now, but writing a good blog post takes time and in most cases it is easier to write comments on threads such as these.

by axaxs 13y ago

dom96 13y ago

I must apologise. I didn't want my advertisements to come off as spammy. I am genuinely excited about the language and I dislike that it gets so little attention. A lot of people that use it say things like "Why is this language so underrated?", "You should be advertising it more!" etc. Which is what I am trying to do. Perhaps I shouldn't be doing it this way, but other people advertise language's like Rust and Go this way too.

axaxs 13y ago
No worries. I do have some suggestions though, from my own perspective as an always learning developer. I took interest in go because of the website, the tour, and the hundred million blog posts that explain why go is good. This may be code beauty, a neat trick, or even benchmarks. But never would I try a language based only on a comment "you should check out go.". Why? Because people for the most part who do that are rather ignorant fanboys...the kind who try to bang nails with a screwdriver if you catch my drift. My time, to me, is valuable...I do a lot of skimming and am easily disinterested. Keep in mind many developers are like this. What I need to become interested is a concise, well laid out page telling me why Nimrod is better than what I have. I don't want to pour through docs or src, I want you to show me. Show me some snippets, some comparisons, some benchmarks, etc. And maybe not even at the same time. Plant the seed in our ears and keep us interested. I didn't try out go, or rust, or even python after the first mention, but after a progression of reads that told me it was right for me. Submit them here, to reddit, to your blog, etc. Also, don't narrow your focus to one language. It's not a competition...see what you like about other languages, what you don't, what works well, etc. With this, you learn to pick the right tool for the job. Further, you can borrow the good parts for nimrod :).
- dom96 13y ago
  Thanks for the awesome advice! Indeed, I have been planning to do that for a long time now, but writing a good blog post takes time and in most cases it is easier to write comments on threads such as these.