From my interaction with the Nim community, I came to the conclusion that nim could be more popular if its founder devolved decision making to scale up the community. I think he likes it the way it is; small, but his. He is Torvaldsesque in his social interactions.

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nallerooth 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I feel the same way - as I suspect a lot of people here do. Nim posts are always upvoted and usually people say nice things about the language in the comments.. but there are few who claim to actually -use- the language for more than a small private project, if even that.

	▲	cb321 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The only way to really test out a programming language is by trying it out or reading how someone else approached a problem that you're interested in/know about. There are over 2200 nimble packages now. Maybe not an eye-popping number, but there's still a good chance that somewhere in the json at https://github.com/nim-lang/packages you will find something interesting. There is also RosettaCode.org which has a lot of Nim example code. This, of course, does not speak to the main point of this subthread about the founder but just to some "side ideas".

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oscillonoscope 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I worked in nim for a little bit and it truly has a lot of potential but ultimately abandoned it for the same reason. It's never going to grow beyond the founder's playground.

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xigoi 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please no. Design by committee would lead to another C++.

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pjmlp 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Languages with design by committee are a plenty, including all mainstream ones, not a single one is still being developed by a single person.

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almostgotcaught 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The second or third most popular language of all time? God forbid lol

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xigoi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Popular does not mean good. Tobacco smoking is also popular.

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almostgotcaught 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Do you think this is clever? For a metaphor to be relevant to a discussion it has to be fitting, not just a dunk.

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xigoi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s not a metaphor. I was giving a counterexample to your implied claim that popularity is an indicator of quality.

	▲	kanaffa12345 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That wasn't an implied claim because we're not discussing metrics for judging quality.