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I notice they have now included the Aporia IDE and Nimble package manager in the Windows installer. This seems like a good step toward getting newcomers up and
by keypusher 11y ago
I notice they have now included the Aporia IDE and Nimble package manager in the Windows installer. This seems like a good step toward getting newcomers up and running quickly, and getting more feedback from the community about the core tools. It seems like many new languages are going with this route of tools supported by core-dev, such as package management. For instance Go ships its code formatting tool, which seems like a good idea. Supporting an IDE seems more questionable, for instance Python never seemed to have much success with IDLE, and IDE preference is very personal. Anyway, as someone who primarily writes Python at work I find Nim to be very usable because the syntax and style is so familiar, and I really like most of the decisions they have made. I prefer Nim's static typing and compiled executables for redistribution, and they have introduced nice new concepts around concurrency and more advanced language features. Definitely looking forward to using this language more and more as it moves toward 1.0