Hello, Many forums have a long running thread for introductions. So I am joining this thread. Hopefully others will continue in the future.
I just wanted to say Hi and introduce my self. I am just learning Nim, but I have decided to make a commitment. I have read the tutorials and bought the book and am working my way through it. I have also joined the Bountysource where I could afford. I am not a professional developer, but would like to attempt some serious projects. One of the things that attracts me to Nim is the natural ability to interface with both C and C++. I have used lots of things which do okay with C, but C++ always required a C wrapper around the C++ which made it either difficult to near impossible. I have projects where I will need that ability. I have used Python casually for 20+ years. I have also been a long time user of Squeak and Pharo. I have known Göran Krampe for a long time before he was Göran Krampe. As a long time casual user of Python for a long time, I find the syntax of Nim to be comfortable. I think it is in some ways nicer than Python, but I do have to get used to the static typing. As a long time user of Squeak and Pharo, like Göran, I do miss the live environment. I would dearly love to see some things that direction in the future. Pharo has been my language and environment of choice the last several years. I am enjoying learning Nim. I like the features it provides. I like the efficiency and I do believe it makes for a nice balance between efficiency and elegance. I hope to be able to contribute back to the community when I am up to speed on using Nim. Thanks for this language and the reasonably unique set of features it has. Jimmie
