> > What does it means? Firstly, that Nim is not popular at all. Secondly, it
> > shows that Nim has not found an audience with people fond of mathematical
> > and programming challenges.
>
> Ok. Any ideas how to make it more popular? :-)
Adding a link to [Project Euler](https://projecteuler.ne
I mostly agree with you and I am also rather optimistic for the future of Nim.
The community is tiny, but composed of truly motivated Nim users. My remark
about the small number of Nim users in Project Euler was there only to give
true numbers, and yes, Nim is certainly a marginal language here.
> But I don’t see why the mathematical nature of Project Euler problems could
> explain why there are so few Nim users compared to users of other programming
> languages. Except if, for some reason, Nim users hate mathematics
I think your observation and explanation was fully correct: Compared t
This is my opinion so I have no "hard-data" to backup, I think most (if not
all) Nim users are people who already have experience with other languages.
People will gravitate to something that have most lib, most tutorial, most
documentation, and most easiest for solving their real-life problems
Yes, I can understand that you don’t appreciate Project Euler tasks. They may
seem less fun that, for example, those of Advent of Code. Most of them have a
strong mathematical nature and not everybody likes to deal with prime numbers
and totient function. So, you have to like mathematics or, mor
Here is my story from a slightly different angle.
I really like code-challenges sites. I've used them a lot (and: a lot of them
;)) when I was learning Python, and some of them when I started with Nim, here
is the list from the top of my head:
* Checkio
* Codewars
* Hackerrank
* Exercis
I've been solving each of the Project Euler problems with 3 languages (C11,
Python, and Haskell) as an exercise. I've done the first five or six. I haven't
tried to use Nim in this context but actually it's as suitable as Python.
> Any ideas how to make it more popular? :-)
In the Project Euler community, this is not easy. Members are mostly
mathematicians and either they use main languages such as C, C++, Java, Python,
or they use languages such as Haskell (6863 users!) or more logically
Mathematica or Matlab. For thos
> What does it means? Firstly, that Nim is not popular at all. > Secondly, it
> shows that Nim has not found an audience with people fond of mathematical and
> programming challenges.
Ok. Any ideas how to make it more popular? :-)
That is really an interesting report, thanks.
So there are at least 13 Nim users -- well maybe some may have already retired
:-)
If I remember correctly, we had more than 100 users participating in 2018
Advent of Code using Nim, so this seems to be a more upto date lower bound.
When we assume
Secondly, it shows that Nim has not found an audience with people fond of
mathematical and programming challenges.
Run
There may be people interested in mathematics (and its applications) but not in
programming challenges that are generally more attractive for students.
When
Hi all,
In another thread, someone ( _mratsim_ ) has spoken of a lot of users using Nim
for Project Euler. Maybe members of this “project” have done a lot of noise to
make illusion, but I want to give some more precise data regarding Nim and
Project Euler.
For those who do not know about this
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