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Anyone have experience using Nim? The TLDR that I am seeing is compiled portable python/js replacement in a way.

I was thinking about trying to write a webserver with it and was wondering if anyone had any previous experience with it.

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

In my experience, Nim is a language that you either fall in love with immediately or just try for a bit before going back to Rust or Python. My experience is the former, I absolutely love this language and I feel most people are missing out on it.

Honestly I don't really have anything to say about it other than it's just a lot of fun to use. It's got a great macro system, and the compile-time evaluation is the best, imo even better than Zig. It's also got a large and comprehensive standard library, so for smaller projects you don't really even need to use Nimble.

But other than that, my love for this language is mostly just "I like how you write stuff and how that stuff works." It's a great language if you need to develop fast like Python, but run fast like C. It's a language you can spend years learning the intricacies of, but pick up in a day. Nim was where a lot of programming concepts just clicked for me. It's more than just a compiled Python, and I recommend playing around with it for a bit.

[–] ono@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

No experience yet, but It's the next language I want to try.

[–] noeontheend@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Nim is one of my favorite languages, and has been one of my primary languages in rotation for projects for the last five or so years. I've written servers (and web frontends, CLI tools, quick scripts, etc.) with it and am very happy with the results.

It's hard for me to put into words why I like it so much, but I think it might actually be because it's such a mishmash of paradigms. If I'm in a functional mood, I can use lots of ideas from functional programming. If I feel like using OOP everywhere, I can do that too. And if I want to mix both together, it's no problem! Nim kind of feels like the Wild West, and while that's something I'd dislike in most languages, for whatever reason it works when writing in Nim.

[–] samus7070@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve never been a big fan of transpiled languages. I’ve looked at Nim a few times over the years and while it looks nice, I’ve never found it more compelling than other languages. Chances are there is at least one more not quite mainstream language that does something cool that will fit your usecase more and not be transpiled.

[–] FriendOfFalcons@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Nim is not transpiled. Transpilation means translation between equal levels of abstraction. The C code generated by Nim is not something most people would do anything with.

[–] drew_belloc@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been using a little, learned at the start of the month and really enjoyed, but since it don't have many user sometimes is hard to find how to do something, it was easy to create a webserver but i really wanna to create a qt application with it (since i use kde plasma), but i can't find a proper way of doing it

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe try some of these - I found this awesome list in my research https://github.com/VPashkov/awesome-nim#gui