Nim rose to the top of median salary leaderboard in 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

2024-08-02 Thread junelac
It's funny, but statistics on a number of people you can count on one hand aren't very great :)

Why is building the community and ecosystem such a struggle?

2023-10-24 Thread junelac
To answer your question: it is a struggle because it is hard. The only three "recent" languages that enjoyed a real widespread success are rust, go and typescript. Three of them were backed by a big and renown company, two of them by 2 of the 5 biggest tech companies in the world. And they succe

Nim version 2.0.0 is here

2023-08-03 Thread junelac
Congratulation !

Mojo Language: Similarities/Differences with Nim, Potential Lessons for Adoption

2023-05-04 Thread junelac
I'm not very convinced by a language for improving python that have mandatory manual management of memory. I think the best bet for a "new" language to have success is to be the glue between the big ecosystems (C, C++, python, javascript, maybe also java, C# and rust). This language must be muc

Writing a wrapper for ML libraries how-to

2023-04-25 Thread junelac
thanks it looks very useful

Writing a wrapper for ML libraries how-to

2023-04-25 Thread junelac
there is a dataframe library in nim (never tried)

Writing a wrapper for ML libraries how-to

2023-04-25 Thread junelac
I'm currently exploring this topic. i found this page very useful as an introduction: I'm also experimenting with automatic wrappers. Only with Futhark for the moment, but I will try c2nim and nimterop also. My only knowledge of C i

State of HTTP Servers in Nim

2023-04-13 Thread junelac
While I understand the frustration, I find the language here very harsh for the people giving away they work for free. Nim has no google or mozilla behind to fund it and generate hype.

This Month with Nim: November and December 2022

2023-01-14 Thread junelac
I'm always impressed by how productive people are with nim

Nim v2: what would you change?

2022-05-03 Thread junelac
To give my two cents about the case/underscore insensitivity question, I'm not concerned as a beginner, but a good argument is that it's incompatible with common tools as grep. Even though nimgrep exists, asking users to learn and use another tool is an unnecessary overhead

AI in Nim

2021-10-27 Thread junelac
Python is king in this field. I'm curious to see what nim has to offer in comparison