Re: How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-27 Thread qqtop
As Nim grows , there will be the need of a management structure and the sooner this is implemented the better the foundation for future growth will be. An example of this could be : [http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation](http://forum.nim-lang.org///www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-f

Re: How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-27 Thread Araq
> Whats your take on this Araq and lead developers? Well you can buy commercial support and we have BountySource, apart from that I'm kinda out of ideas. More risky things don't work well for me since I have children to feed. And I am rushing v1 now so that "cannot use it in production, not v1"

Re: How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-26 Thread Dippo
I think it depends on the community. If more people hear/use Nim then bigger companies would follow. The problem however, is that there are allot of programming languages that have already proven them self. To blend in and prove that Nim is beter, is hard. Also, Nim is still not version 1.0. The

Re: How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-24 Thread _tulayang
I hear docker is written by Golang and the distributed storage system of Dropbox is writting from Golang to Rust. I hope there will be some similar large-scale popular systems are written by Nim. Compared to other languages (D Rust Golang Scala), I feel Nim is very close to perfect.

Re: How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-23 Thread Libman
Free money is nice. I'm sure no one here will turn it down. :P It seems that everyone has some Big Ideas for Araq, which isn't always helpful because these ideas pile more and more effort in his already overloaded plate. (I have a zillion ideas too, and not enough time to follow through on any o

How about we start trying to make nim a well funded/backed project?

2016-07-23 Thread v3ss0n
These day , i saw a few opensource projects getting funding not just from grants , but also from VC and angels. [Ipython , anaconda , swift based webframework- perfect , RethinkDB , Docker] to name a few. Current bounty source campaign going well but 1400$ won't be enough make it a serious proje