Nim 0.12.0 released

#1

Post by elpres » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 7:22 AM UTC

Nim 0.12.0 released
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Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#2

Post by arthursilva » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 12:47 PM UTC

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#3

Post by vbit » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

arthursilva wrote: post #2

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Why so?

Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#4

Post by ldlework » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 8:27 PM UTC

arthursilva wrote: post #2

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Huh, I keep hearing more and more about it in places I'd never suspect.

Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#5

Post by federico3 » Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 8:53 PM UTC

ldlework wrote: post #4

arthursilva wrote: post #2

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Huh, I keep hearing more and more about it in places I'd never suspect.

Some examples?

Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#6

Post by alekq » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 10:24 AM UTC

arthursilva wrote: post #2

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Certainly, it is in domain of forecast, however I see it as a good target for natural migration of (Object) Pascal developers and use cases for Python developers in need of native, fast and small executable etc.

Re: Nim 0.12.0 released

#7

Post by arthursilva » Thu, Oct 29, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

vbit wrote: post #3

arthursilva wrote: post #2

What a great language, seriously. Unfortunately I have no hopes that I'll gain any significant traction.

Why so?

It's competing with Golang, D and Crystal, also with C++ and Rust to some extent.

Except Crystal every other language in this list have some kind of corporate backing and is experiencing orders of magnitude more growth.