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SJMG•1 day 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://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus

vmsp•1 day ago
It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often
Octoth0rpe•1 day ago
It really could use a good corporate sponsor and a couple of widely known success stories.
nallerooth•1 day 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.
kitd•1 day ago
AIUI, Reddit uses it for some internal tools. They would be a good backer.
systems•1 day 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__•1 day 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•about 22 hours ago
Being a generalist isn't easy.
falcor84•1 day 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

dzonga•1 day ago
wonder why they didn't just copy what Golang did in terms of the router with it's IO writer / reader spec ?
jadbox•1 day 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.