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Law of Marketing for Successful Programming Languages: the basic examples should teach sockets, websockets or http servers.

• w-ll 12y ago
  There are still tons of problems that need solving that don't involve these things.
  • coolsunglasses 12y ago
    My Haskell article for HowIStart was CSV data processing. shrug
  • swah 12y ago
    Sure, but they don't sell programming languages in these Node/Go times...
    • mwfunk 12y ago
      If all you do is web development, all programming languages look like tools to build web sites with I guess. I don't think the author was trying to sell anything, it seemed like more of a gift to like-minded individuals.
      • pekk 12y ago
        It is incredibly obvious that Nim is being sold as hard as it can be sold
• girvo 12y ago
  HowIStart isn't something that I'd considering "marketing" for the language, personally. It does what it says on the tin: teach you how to get started from scratch with the language. However, you are correct somewhat; this is why on Nim's homepage[0] there is an example of Jester (a web server/routing DSL)! [0] http://nim-lang.org/ http://nim-lang.org/