Nim core developer wanted
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Nim core developer wanted
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#2Glad to see small languages like this getting support and traction.
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#3Nim donation page is here: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/nim
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#4Hope they find someone, nim is a very good language for how small and independent it is. Especially considering its operating in the same realm as heavyweights like rust and go.
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#5I'm very bullish on Nim. We're crossing the finish line of putting our first Nim code into production at work and overall it's been a pretty positive experience.
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#6I'm very bullish on Nim. We're crossing the finish line of putting our first Nim code into production at work and overall it's been a pretty positive experience.
I'm interested in hearing about your experience! Pitfalls? Major positives? Have you considered writing about it?
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#7I'm very bullish on Nim. We're crossing the finish line of putting our first Nim code into production at work and overall it's been a pretty positive experience.
I'm interested in hearing about your experience! Pitfalls? Major positives? Have you considered writing about it?
I have! And I will... I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
The main takeaway is specific to my use-case: writing a dynamic library that can be called from within Python code. The main positive and negative are two sides of the same coin: since Nim compiles to C, you get to use all the existing tools designed for doing C FFI in Python, and don't have to write any C wrappers. And since Nim isn't C, there's still a little bit of detective work involved in replicating all the argument types, GC behavior, etc, that is involved in Nim and the specifics of its realization in C.
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#8Nim is one of those things that seems very well put together yet I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages and different types of communities around them.
What kind of stuff is particularly popular among Nim users compared to communities for other languages?
What kind of stuff do the people working on Nim want to use it / see it used for?
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#9Nim is one of those things that seems very well put together yet I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages and different types of communities around them. What kind of stuff is particularly popular among Nim users compared to communities for other languages? What kind of stuff do the people working on Nim want to use it / see it used for?
Games, or soft real-time systems (like audio tools; synths, DAWs, or editors). Potentially, cross-platform mobile apps.
Thanks to its approach to GC, you can impose a limit on the time to spend on GC between ticks, so no unpredictable performance stuttering.
I see it as having nice "functional-ish" syntax like Python, but with static types.
Re: Nim core developer wanted
#10Nim is one of those things that seems very well put together yet I can't currently see what role it fills in the wider market for programming languages and different types of communities around them. What kind of stuff is particularly popular among Nim users compared to communities for other languages? What kind of stuff do the people working on Nim want to use it / see it used for?
Games, or soft real-time systems (like audio tools; synths, DAWs, or editors). Potentially, cross-platform mobile apps. Thanks to its approach to GC, you can impose a limit on the time to spend on GC between ticks, so no unpredictable performance stuttering. I see it as having nice "functional-ish" syntax like Python, but with static types.
A limit on GC time might then obviously lead to high or too high memory use, potentially?