Nim in business

2020-06-05 Thread SirHaswell
Good morning, sir, I'm very interested in Nim and I would like to create some web APIs with for a company What do you think, is Nim mature enough? No one's talking to me seriously about it.

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-05 Thread aguspiza2
I have been using nim for at least 2 years, doing some simple tools (console and ui with libui) for the company I work for. Also I enjoy programming some PoCs here and there in github. I am really happy coding with nim, that is the best nim feature, developer happiness. Nim and its core librar

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-05 Thread didlybom
I’ve written some simple tools in nim for my company. Basically some little console programs that in the past I would have written in Python. Writing them was pretty much as easy a with python but the resulting programs were very fast. I’d say nim’s standard library is pretty good. Definitely su

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-07 Thread PMunch
Depends heavily on what kind of APIs you're thinking about. For the simple stuff it's good, but you might run into it lacking a package for a certain protocol or similar if you need to do something more complex.

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-08 Thread snej
> you might run into it lacking a package On the other hand, it's very easy to write wrappers for C APIs in Nim. Easier than any other language I've used except Swift.

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-08 Thread spip
Perhaps people from [these companies](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Companies-using-Nim) have an _experienced_ opinion on the subject.

Re: Nim in business

2020-06-08 Thread jasonfi
I wrote an article on the pros and cons of Nim in general: [https://onlinetechinfo.com/pros-and-cons-of-nim](https://onlinetechinfo.com/pros-and-cons-of-nim) My opinion is that Nim can handle what you're asking about. The community is small, but very active and helpful (if you do run into proble