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I don't know why you got downvoted, same thing happened to me.
Perhaps if he didn't start his comment with "LOL" it wouldn't have been downvoted. That said, somebody on IRC mentioned that the website is blocked on Norwegian train's wifi so perhaps this problem is widespread. Any ideas where these blocking services get their black lists?
http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp?url=http://nim...
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Brief is not the same as lazy. I personally find comments that say what they mean to say in a short amount of text much more useful than ones that go on for paragraphs without saying anything new. I strive for brevity. I revised the one you responded to so you may want to check that now. As far as more details of what I don't like about Nim, that would have been easy to ask directly; I find the syntax of: echo("Hello…
Wow, I just have to reply! Which one of these do you prefer: echo("Hello") echo "Hello" "Hello".echo "Hello".echo() Or something different?
All the hype on HN seems to be towards Rust and Go (with Go having its share of haters), but Nim sounds particularly interesting as a side-step from Python that runs faster than both Go and Rust. Can anyone give me some insight as to why it's not as hyped, if at all? I'm rather unfamiliar with Nim, and it's seems to have a smaller community, but it feels like it should be getting all sorts of love considering its spe…
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Not to mention, Nim still doesn't have a Wikipedia article because it is "not significant". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(disambiguation)
I can't see where it says Nim (programming language) is "not significant". Maybe the reason there isn't a Wikipedia article is as simple as because nobody who has an account on Wikipedia had heard of or thought to create an article on Nim. The solution to which is quite simple, go create an article.
All the hype on HN seems to be towards Rust and Go (with Go having its share of haters), but Nim sounds particularly interesting as a side-step from Python that runs faster than both Go and Rust. Can anyone give me some insight as to why it's not as hyped, if at all? I'm rather unfamiliar with Nim, and it's seems to have a smaller community, but it feels like it should be getting all sorts of love considering its spe…
Corporations have become better at promoting technologies to developers, including worse technology. Languages are seen as strategic advantages against the competition ("A language that only work on our devices!"). So I would bet corporate money find its way towards tech blogs and user groups, to bring the kool-aid to the masses. Also keep in mind that big corporations like Google are dominant entities and anything t…
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Corporations have become better at promoting technologies to developers, including worse technology. Languages are seen as strategic advantages against the competition ("A language that only work on our devices!"). So I would bet corporate money find its way towards tech blogs and user groups, to bring the kool-aid to the masses. Also keep in mind that big corporations like Google are dominant entities and anything t…
Google and Microsoft are better at doing stuff like that than others. I wonder why Apple has taken that approach with regards to Swift
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I can't see where it says Nim (programming language) is "not significant". Maybe the reason there isn't a Wikipedia article is as simple as because nobody who has an account on Wikipedia had heard of or thought to create an article on Nim. The solution to which is quite simple, go create an article.
It used to have a page. It was deleted because the language was not considered significant. This is a relatively famous case, referred to frequently.
> Lacks reliable independent secondary sources to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Every source is WP:PRIMARY. Every one of them. Googling turned up posts to online discussion forums but nothing useful. Additionally, I note that the decision to delete at the previous AfD was unanimous for the same reasons.
> Perhaps think of it this way: a language becomes notable when people who haven't been involved in its creation start writing about it. If/when this language gets to that point you'll have no problem creating an article. At the moment, though, there just hasn't been enough uptake to get the coverage we need for notability.
The problem is that most sources about Nim are by Araq or not reliable enough.
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While Andreas is still doing most of the core development it is not true that he is still the sole developer of Nim. I am personally involved with a lot of work on the standard library and there are two others who also work on the compiler. We all have a say in the design of Nim. In addition to that I have built a lot of software for Nim programmers in Nim like for example Nimble and the Nim forum.
I was vaguely aware of this. But where are the major design decisions publicly discussed? If you look at the Julia issue tracker, you'll see an enormous amount of discussion between and with core devs about language design decisions. It's good to have someone primarily responsible for the compiler, someone responsible for libraries, another for GC, another for the package manager, etc. I'm not suggesting every core d…
All the hype on HN seems to be towards Rust and Go (with Go having its share of haters), but Nim sounds particularly interesting as a side-step from Python that runs faster than both Go and Rust. Can anyone give me some insight as to why it's not as hyped, if at all? I'm rather unfamiliar with Nim, and it's seems to have a smaller community, but it feels like it should be getting all sorts of love considering its spe…
The reason, in my opinion at least, is that Nim does not have a commercial company behind it like Go and Rust who have Google and Mozilla respectively. This in turn means that Nim does not have as many resources (it is developed completely voluntarily in people's spare time) so development is slower.
But how can you get a major company to get behind Nim when the all want to have their own programming language?
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Perhaps if he didn't start his comment with "LOL" it wouldn't have been downvoted. That said, somebody on IRC mentioned that the website is blocked on Norwegian train's wifi so perhaps this problem is widespread. Any ideas where these blocking services get their black lists?
At my location, it looks like this is the service: http://sitereview.bluecoat.com/sitereview.jsp?url=http://nim...
Edit: They reclassified it, should be unblocked now.